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...itself, the personal computer is a machine with formidable capabilities for tabulating, modeling or recording. Those capabilities can be multiplied almost indefinitely by plugging it into a network of other computers. This is generally done by attaching a desktop model to a telephone line (two-way cables and earth satellites are coming increasingly into use). One can then dial an electronic data base, which not only provides all manner of information but also collects and transmits messages: electronic mail...
...plunge into the foreign-exchange market was made two weeks ago by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who is responsible for such transactions. Although he had been predicting a drop in the dollar's value, Regan became alarmed while monitoring the U.S. currency's surge on a desktop computer in his office. He gave the order to intervene quietly on July 29 after talking with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and other officials. The U.S. acted with West Germany for one trading day before the other nations joined in last week...
United Technologies (1982 sales: $13.6 billion) may be the first giant U.S. industrial corporation to attempt so broad an experiment with personal computers. For many executives around the country, the desktop device is little more than an expensive paperweight. The reason is that they spend much of their time on supervisory or policymaking tasks. They depend on subordinates to perform the kind of data manipulation and word processing that computers do best. So while computers are commonplace at lower corporate levels, they are not routinely used in the executive suite at such companies as Exxon, General Motors and Du Pont...
...late convert to the electronic office. Until five years ago, the company's secretaries did not even have word processors. Near the close of the 1970s, maverick engineers and finance people began bootlegging Apple and Radio Shack PCs (personal computers) into corporate headquarters. Soon more than 100 unofficial desktop machines had appeared. Now the office help works on more than 600 company-bought computers...
...mouse can also conjure up any of six business programs that come packaged with the computer: word processing, economic modeling, graphing, list management, project scheduling and free-form drawing. The user can run several programs at once, just as an office worker can spread several jobs across a single desktop. Creating and editing files, running printers and other peripheral devices, and juggling long lists of numbers can all be done without consulting a manual or remembering a single computer command. Explains John Couch, Apple's vice president in charge of the Lisa project: "What we wanted...