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...tellingly frequent response from, among others, panelist Alfred Kahn, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under Jimmy Carter. An expert on the telephone industry, Kahn presided over the deregulation of U.S. airlines in the late 1970s and is now a professor of political economy at Cornell. Says Ulric Weil, telecommunications analyst for investment bank Morgan Stanley: "No honest observer can claim to know where this is all going." Agrees Peter J. Jadrosich, a vice president of Paine Webber Jackson & Curtis: "We believe historical performance may be nearly irrelevant to predicting future success...
...that will give users of IBM's desktop equipment access to the company's large mainframe computers. Since an estimated two-thirds of the 1,000 largest U.S. industrial firms use IBM mainframes, the new machines will make the company even tougher to beat. Says Ulric Weil, a computer-industry analyst for Morgan Stanley: "The 3270 could lock Apple, Tandy and other major personal-computer makers right out of the top corporate markets...
...Intel, a leading computer-chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. In June IBM paid $228 million for a 15% stake in Rolm, also of Santa Clara, a major producer of telecommunications equipment. IBM plans to use Rolm to help create the so-called electronic office. Says Ulric Weil, a top computer analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co.: "We're watching a total transformation of the corporation...
...argued that while the U.S. would have the advantage in a pre-emptive strike, this alone will not lead to negotiations resulting in a verifiable treaty," said committee member Frank A. Weil '53, adding that Weinberger advocated more powerful conventional forces to increase negotiating leverage...
Last week Apple Computer Inc., the company that made itself a household word by making computing power affordable to individuals, unveiled a mouse-controlled computer named Lisa that may change forever the way people communicate with their machines. Says Wall Street Analyst Ulric Weil, author of Information Systems in the Eighties: "Simply put, Lisa ushers in the second generation of personal computers...