Word: users
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Once you have the personal computer, there are plenty things you can do with it. As head of the Macintosh User's Group Christopher Carroll '86 says, "Most people just use the word processor for normal boring things like word processing...
Western governments still bar the sale of large computers to the Soviets. Reason: the principal user of computer technology in the Soviet Union is the military. To get around the trade restrictions, the Soviets have relied on espionage. Through bribery and theft, clandestine armies of agents have obtained thousands of classified documents giving technical specifications for Western computers. Whenever possible, the Soviets have gone after the machines themselves. A favorite Soviet tactic is to set up bogus companies in Western Europe to buy computers and then smuggle them to Moscow. In recent years, the U.S. Government has seized several powerful...
...million fund, the largest in a pharmaceutical liability case, that the company set up to cover pending and future claims filed by women who bought Dalkon Shields between 1971 and 1974. The firm stopped marketing the product in the latter year, following the reported death of a user. Since then, more than 12,000 people have filed suits claiming that the Dalkon Shield causes pelvic infections, sterility and infected miscarriages. The device, which was bought by some 2.9 million women in the U.S., has since been linked to 20 deaths from uterine infection. By the end of last year Robins...
Barbara Gerk, who writes a regular column on user groups for the weekly magazine InfoWorld, believes that organizations like FOG will be around for years. When a computer has been orphaned, she says, "sometimes there's nowhere else to turn...
...orphan computers end up in the closet because people don't know what to do with them," says Susan Mahoney, who directs a Timex Sinclair User Group out of her home in Waterbury, Conn. Her 600-member organization, one of 100 such U.S. chapters devoted to Timex alone, helps bring those computers back out of the closet. The Timex groups exchange newsletters, sponsor joint meetings and cooperate in finding spare parts...