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...itself the Sony machine should not cause serious concern to established firms such as Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack, Apple Computer and International Business Machines Corp. The SMC-70 is aimed at the office-equipment market, where Sony faces stiff competition, and it will initially be sold only through Sony's 450 video-and office-machine outlets...
...only thing my six-year-old son wanted for Christmas was a Radio Shack TRS-80. And after years of struggling, he tied his shoes only when we promised him an Atari keyboard...
...risk takers are immigrants who came to America to reap the benefits of its entrepreneurial climate. Sirjang Lai Tandon, 39, left his native India in 1960. In 1975 he founded a firm that makes disc drives for personal computers that are sold by Radio Shack and other companies. Last year his firm had sales of $54.2 million. Jesse I. Aweida, 50, the Palestinian-born founder of Storage Technology in Louisville, Colo., turned the computer memory company into a $922 million-a-year business. Both Altos Computer Systems in San Jose, Calif., and Osborne Computer Corp. in Hayward, Calif., were founded...
Apple has now come to a critical juncture. The company, which last year garnered 23% of the $2.2 billion worldwide market in personal computers, has to fight off a host of aggressive competitors. Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack, with its 8,400 retail outlets, has captured an equal 23% of sales. Xerox has a new entry that its engineers call the "worm" because they claim that it can eat an Apple. Most important, mighty IBM has joined the fray with its first personal computer...
Behind the wat is a shack where the coffins are kept before cremation; and behind that, near a patch of sweet potatoes, the crematorium sits in a clearing under a shed, like a doll's chapel. There is no activity there today. But the wat itself is busy with a festival marking the last day of the Buddhist Lent. A monk in yellow sits cross-legged on a table, while children crouched in a circle burn incense. The smoke is supposed to fly to heaven in order to beckon their ancestors to descend and join them...