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Maybe macho types actually do make better soldiers. Maybe military contractors have a vested interest in high-tech, user-friendly hardware. But it's by no means clear that the Army is "all that it can be." At the very least the U.S. military can make a more plausible pitch to the post-comic books...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Not All It Can Be | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

With only a week of campaigning left before next Tuesday's state primary, user dog Ray Stannic has emphasized this opposition to say test in creases to cut the budget deficit. The self-made millionaire businessman has attempted, with some success, to depict opponent Eliot L. Richardson '41 as eager to like taxes...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Rep Candidates Focus on Taxes | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...other personal computer on the market. The firm also announced its first PC network, a system that will allow dozens of office workers to hook their computers together so they can use the same business data. In addition, IBM displayed a new program called Topview that lets a user split a computer screen into several sections or windows and work on different tasks at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Giant Flexes Its Muscles | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...find out, Turkle became the Margaret Mead of silicon. During six years of study, she interviewed more than 400 computer users (about half of them children), lived in the subculture of virtuoso programmers, called hackers, asked electronic questions on home-user telephone networks and explored the wizardry of M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In a series of vivid vignettes, she reports the various ways the computer "brings philosophy into everyday life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Byting Back | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...experts is that Tramiel's first marketing move may be to try to reverse those numbers by drastically underpricing Commodore's products. Later, perhaps next year, he might develop a model that would compete against more powerful machines made by Apple and IBM for the sophisticated home user. The general's campaign has just begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Pac-Man | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

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