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...raid by the county's Asian Crime Task Force at the house and at a nearby printshop turned up the largest cache of illegal software ever discovered in the U.S., worth nearly $13 million at retail prices. By week's end investigators were still tallying the haul -- all Microsoft products, including the operating system called DOS 6.2 as well as the helper programs Windows and Windows for Workgroups. In March a similar raid in the same neighborhood unearthed about $4.7 million worth of phony software plus a supply of automatic weapons...
...Polly's kidnapping, Gary French, an unemployed computer-systems salesman, rushed to the police station to offer his help. As he watched a fax machine slowly churn out poor reproductions of a suspect sketch, he thought, "We can do this all electronically." When Bill Rhodes, who owns a local printshop, and Larry Magid, a syndicated computer columnist, had the same idea, the police put them in touch...
...next several days, French and Rhodes called on computer companies in Petaluma and nearby Silicon Valley to seek donations of equipment. The result was eight computers, which were put to use faxing 1,000 posters a minute to grocery chains and transportation hubs around the U.S. Two nationwide printshop chains, PIP and Kinko's, pitched in to convert the electronic images into high-quality hard copies at all their outlets. Local volunteers distributed the posters...
...reversal as a sign of weakness. But many changed their mind a few months later. After the state legislature imposed a strict October 1991 deadline for inmates to challenge their convictions, Whitley, alone of Louisiana's 12 prison wardens, helped inmates beat the cutoff. He authorized the prison printshop to run off 5,000 appeal applications. He instructed the prison radio station to hold a question-and-answer program, brought in a lawyer to field questions, then ordered all inmates to listen. He also made sure that illiterate inmates -- fully 70% of the prison population -- got help filling...
...past year advanced technology has begun to turn things around. Faster, easier-to-use models came to the market, and more are on the way. Just as important, innovative software for old and new machines has made personal computers more versatile. It is now possible to turn out printshop-quality graphics -- and design everything from cabinets to cathedrals -- on the space of a desktop...