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Chemical's foray into bank-at-home personal computing, dubbed Pronto, was announced last week. This was the latest move by a growing number of banks to cash in on the popularity of personal computers. As prices for the machines have plunged and their use has spread, bankers have begun eyeing home computers as a huge new market and a way to cut costs and paperwork in the back office. New York's Citibank has an experimental program in 100 homes in Queens, while the First Bank System in Minneapolis has computers with 250 customers...
...Chemical's customers can use only Atari machines, but by year's end bank officials hope to offer Pronto to people who own other brands. Cost of the service: $5 to $10 a month...
...continues to worry bankers and customers about at-home accounts is security. Computerized crime is already a menace to banks, and the dangers are multiplied many times over when access to bank computers is opened up to customers as well as employees. As a protective measure, Chemical's Pronto customers must send three separate codes every time they want to conduct business. First Bank System in Minneapolis is testing a magnetic identification card that must be inserted into a special terminal slot before the customer can sign on to the system. Both Chemical and First Bank System claim that...
...chief value of Ethan Mordden's The Splendid Art of Opera is in just such updatings, which are the results of exhaustive research. Unfortunately, Mordden, a former editor of Opera News, has a brass ear for language: one composer, he writes, "will have to wow 'em pronto." His book is less pleasurable than utilitarian, something to thumb through for answers rather than for diversion...
...year Polaroid brought out the revolutionary SX-70, the coat-pocket-size folding fully automatic single-lens reflex camera; it popped out film that developed sharp color prints while one looked at them. After some initial start-up problems with the SX-70, the mass-market One-Step and Pronto models were smash successes. In 1978 the company was manufacturing 30,000 OneSteps a day. Even after Eastman Kodak finally entered the instant-photo field in 1976, Polaroid roared forward, always one inspirational idea ahead of the competition...