Word: rabkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Rabkin, a surgeon from Sausalito, Calif., considered himself a pretty savvy consumer-until he decided to buy a personal computer. Nothing he had learned while buying cars or stereo rigs prepared him for the trauma of shopping for a microcomputer. Not only was the equipment expensive ($2,500 and up for a complete system) and dauntingly complex, but the manufacturers seemed to be in a state of constant turmoil. "I didn't know what I was getting into," says Rabkin. "I was afraid anything I might buy would be obsolete within six months." For now, the doctor...
Customers like Rabkin represent the personal computer industry's greatest challenge. The original buyers were often hobbyists or technically inclined businessmen, but today they are outnumbered by a new breed of consumer: the computer naive. These first-time customers are more cautious, less technically sophisticated and less convinced that computers will change their lives. By and large, they are right. "For the new consumer, the stuffs been oversold," says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter. "The technology is still too hard...
Most importantly, will the University do something before exams start and the real suffering begins? David G. Rabkin '83 Daniel H. Reich...
...house slamming down onto two others, killing a woman. Two hundred yards away, Writer Brian Vander Horst watched. Says he: "It happened so fast that two rooms from the falling house were flashing with lights as they came down the hill. Mud was running like molten lava." Surgeon Robert Rabkin had planned to spend Monday night in his Sausalito condominium, but decided at the last moment to attend a hospital meeting miles away. Leaving home he had a foretaste of disaster: the stream running through the property was a dark, muddy brown. When Rabkin returned seven hours later, his house...
...Beth Israel has a strong tradition of community interest with many private practitioners, while Affiliated has a strong tradition of full-time academicians," Rabkin said...