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...Internet and internal networks (intranets) will produce a surge in demand for the sort of giant computers only IBM can make and maintain. The prediction evokes some scary memories at company headquarters in Armonk, New York; it's exactly the same bet the company made in the early '80s, when it wagered billions that the mainframe market was due for growth. The decision almost killed the company. Gerstner at least has stripped away the division's techno-worshipping culture and replaced it with an outlook that's more McDonald's than McDonnell Douglas. The customer focus has paid off: analysts...
Many times, the "killer [application] of the '80s and '90s"--e-mail--is the hook that draws faculty in, Bergen says...
...started using computers in the '80s. I remember one colleague telling me that word processing was something I would really need and find suited exactly to my writing habits...
...rather cover the Mode reunion. Half the crowd had the look of a Whitesnake-Nelson doublebill audience, and the other half wore the J. Crew + Birkenstocks attire that infested the HORDE festival. Everyone came with their girlfriend--women who all got together and conspired to resurrect the late '80s Aerosmith video dancer look...
...Maximus has been here, right here since '89. Before that, since the mid-80s, it was in Arlington on Mass. Ave.," he says of the skatepark...