Word: xeroxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he learned FORTRAN on an IBM at Stewart Junior High School in Tacoma, Wash. He dissected nearly every radio and television set in the house and then skipped college to take a series of odd jobs on the periphery of the computer world. He repaired video-arcade games, Xerox machines and personal computers, and at one time ran the ComputerLand store in Renton, Wash. In 1979, convinced that there were fortunes to be made, he bought an Apple II Plus and began churning out video games, working as a building manager by day and programming at night...
...Every time you talk about Serge Lang you end up as part of a file," says Lionel S. Lewis, professor of sociology at the State University of New York, who wrote a flattering review of The File. "The editor [of that book] said apparently Lang must own shares of Xerox...
...that individual Betamax users violate copyright when "time-shifting" certain shows. Kroft went still farther, calling for compensation from Sony and even a ban on Betamax use and sales. Closely questioning Kroft on this logic. Chief Justice Warren Burger asked if photocopying manufacturers would similarly be liable say "if Xerox or another maker advertises that this is a good way to copy books?" Said Kroft: "I would say that a seller of photocopying machines would be liable." In fact, under further questioning Kroft even suggested there would be copyright infringement even if Xerox did not so advertise since, in Burger...
Name an economic problem, and Harvester had it: labor troubles, skyrocketing interest rates, tough competition from firms with lower costs, and poor management. In 1977 Harvester brought in former Xerox Executive Archie McCardell, and then made him chairman in 1979, to pull it out of its slump; instead, things got worse. McCardell was ousted in the spring of 1982. Donald Lennox, another Xerox alumnus, became boss...
Were those papers in that class in ethics and justice graded properly, fairly? Hardly. But then you should have seen this section leader in class on the day before. Thanksgiving when I myself was a visitor. He passed out a Xerox copy of a hand-scratched assignment sheet. It had only two topics on it, and the section leader asked that everyone choose the second one. There was a general sigh among the students as they listened in this pathetic effort to make the second paper respectable. When asked in front of the hemmed and unconcerned professor when the paper...