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...compared with $1,530 for the genuine article in the U.S. A few of the bogus machines bear Apple Computer Inc.'s distinctive trademark, a multicolored apple with a bite missing. Others have slightly changed names like Apolo. Asian manufacturers have so successfully duplicated the silicon micro chips in the core of the Apple machines that the imitations can use a broad range of software, from VisiCalc, the top-selling business budgeting and planning program, to video games like Snack Attack and Rocket Intercept...
R.I.T. puts special emphasis on computer science. Last month it became the first school in the U.S. to offer a bachelor's degree in microelectronic engineering, which is the art of constructing complex computer circuitry on tiny silicon chips. All R.I.T. students are required to learn how to operate a computer, whether they are majoring in electrical engineering or hotel management. Says R.I.T. President M. Richard Rose: "We're moving into a different society. In the year 2000 the liberally educated person is going to have a strong technical background...
...four 13-year-olds from Dal ton, a private school in New York City, used the school's computers for a silicon-chip joy ride through the stored riches of several corporations. Over a period of six months, the Dalton Gang eavesdropped on private data banks, juggled accounts and mischievously erased 10 million bits of data from a Canadian cement company's computer. Tracked down and thoroughly chastised, the youths promised to go straight. But since then, electronic pranksterism by other teen-age sorcerers has only grown more sophisticated-and diabolical...
...know, these final editorials have a tendency to stress a single theme--we should all go out to try to change the world instead of chasing the almighty buck on Wall Street or Silicon Valley or Route 128 or wherever people are engaged in the task of buck chasing...
...Harvard marketing course, Fylstra and a friend founded Personal Software in 1978 with an initial investment of $500. The company produced programs for personal computers, which were just then starting to come onto the market in great numbers. In 1979 Fylstra moved Personal Software to California's Silicon Valley...