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There may have been reasons for the leaks other than just financial gain. "Heard on the Street" writers are strongly encouraged to dig up scoops, according to one former reporter at the paper. As a result, a column writer could be tempted to swap information with a news source in exchange for fresh tips. "Out of a galaxy of motives," said the ex-staffer, "it is conceivable that there is but one element: simple pressure to get a story...
...earliest application programs were developed by personal-computer hobbyists and were freely traded much as housewives swap favorite recipes. The authors were often more interested in displaying their work than in earning money from the programs. Copies were readily made and duplicates given away at computer-club meetings. As recently as 1980, software was still - something of a cottage industry, with programs packaged in plastic bags and sold through the mail...
...seeks to cash in on its communications experience with its first line of commercial computers. The new machines can be tied together so that they can swap information easily. Included in ast week's introduction, moreover, was a system that allows the A T & T products o link up in networks with IBM personal computers and compatible machines. 'AT&T has more networking experience than anybody else on earth," says Advest's Anderson...
...around wealthy school districts. "We are bombarded daily with catalogues of software, letters and phone calls," says Torance Vandygriff, principal of the Preston Hollow Elementary School in North Dallas, which last year raised $24,000 to buy classroom computers. Atari, in a joint venture with Post Cereals, will even swap equipment for proof-of-purchase coupons clipped from breakfast-cereal boxes. The exchange rate: one $300 Atari 800XL computer for every 3,125 boxes of Alpha-Bits...
...Angeles Times has twelve campaign reporters; only two of them travel full time with individual candidates, and those two often swap assignments. Times National Editor Norman Miller points out that reporters who remain in the cocoon not only run the risk of getting stale, but are apt to lose perspective; they can become focused on what he calls the "inside baseball" of strategy. Says he: "It does not help a person to make a choice on whom to vote for if we go on about how good an organization someone has in Iowa...