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Attempts to move from raw materials into high technology have been troubled too. In the early 1970s, Exxon entered the market for electronic office equipment with innovative products like the Vydec word processor. After a good start, sales wilted under competition from IBM, Wang Laboratories and other office product specialists. In the past three years, Exxon's office division lost $150 million...
...information outlet in the wall just as they now have outlets for electricity and the telephone. This new one would be connected to a cable that ties together, for example, the personal computer in an executive's office with computers of other managers, his secretary's word processor and centralized files or duplication services. A businessman could thus call up information for a report, write it out, send it to duplication and then to the company files with the push of a few buttons. Experts predict that the equipment to tie these various machines together will...
Carter was eager to show his visitor the much prized white machine. "This is my place," he said, pointing toward the corner of the wood-paneled study, where he spends hours turning back and forth between the word processor and a desk that once belonged to his father. He refers to one of the remarkable diaries he kept so doggedly through his four years. Each evening, no matter how tired he was, he dictated his feelings-often blunt and troubled-into a tape recorder. Six thousand pages of transcripts, a historian's treasure, now fill dozens of black books...
...friend. Like her husband, she is immersed in writing a book, an autobiography that reaches back to her early days in Plains. At first she was terrified by the project. Now she spends a good deal of time clicking out the story of her life on a white word processor...
...visitor prepared to leave, Jimmy Carter headed back to his word processor. The house was still silent and dark. He began rewriting a section of the book that describes his closest aides. Some who had read the draft had told him that it was much too soft on them. Engrossed in the work, he pushed himself well past his usual 10:30 bedtime. Day after day, he applied to the book the same drive and ruthless self-discipline he had brought to the presidency. Back home in Plains, he worked as if his very survival as a man depended...