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Recent Articles about IBM Personal Computer

Games Businesspeople Play

By Abby Solomon |  Oct 1, 1983

Some talk about it; some don't. But without question, there are more than a few who are doing something other than VisiCalc down at the shop.  Read more

National Insecurity

By Jan Czekajewski |  Dec 1, 1986

Reading the story about Mr. Kachajian's experiences with export controls ("Kachajian's Rebellion," October), I was not a bit surprised, because I have my ...  Read more

HP Points A Finger At IBM

By Robert A. Mamis |  Nov 1, 1983

They say that apes with typewriters and plenty of time could eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. By the same token, a flock of moths might come...  Read more

Food For Thought

Mar 1, 1984

Computers work logically, humans don't. On the other hand, no one has yet credited a computer with original thought. If the machine's capacity for organiz...  Read more

Comdex/fall '82: More Byte For The Buck

By Deborah Wise |  Mar 1, 1983

The year's largest microcomputer show demonstrates that small businesspeople can get more capability in systems that are easier to use.  Read more

A Winning Combination for the Personal Computer

Feb 1, 1983

Mitch Kapor of Lotus discusses the advent of personal computing in the business world  Read more

The Software Free Lunch

By John Gliedman |  Jun 1, 1985

FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF SOFTWARE NEEDS, THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE THAT SOMEONE HAS WRITTEN A PROGRAM THAT MIGHT NOT BE BETTER, BUT AT LEAST IT'S FREE.  Read more

No Accounting For Software

By Donna Sammons Carpenter |  Mar 1, 1984

H-R Industries Inc., a Dallas manufacturer of printed circuit boards, needed payroll and accounting software for its IBM Personal Computer, so the company...  Read more

The Major Business Database Vendors

Dec 1, 1983

A look at the major business database providers  Read more

Software;

By Jim Bartimo |  Jun 1, 1985

A new telecommunications product called Watson, made by Natural MicroSystems Corp., of Natick, Mass., promises to turn an IBM Personal Computer into a dra...  Read more

Keeping Electronic Mail Private

By Vin McLellan |  Apr 1, 1984

As electronic mail, cellular telephones, and electronic banking become more important tools of daily life, there is a growing need for a reliable means of...  Read more

Blazing Trails

By Sara Delano |  Sep 1, 1983

"Pioneers put up with hardships so others don't have to," says Jim Edlin, president of Bruce & James, Program Publishers Inc., a San Francisco softwar...  Read more

The High-tech Dream Won't Come True

By Seymour Melman |  Aug 1, 1984

It isn't just the transition from smokestack to silicon that's troubling the American economy. The real issue is managers' capability to produce.  Read more

Tales Of Equity;

By Bruce G. Posner |  Feb 1, 1984

There is a new twist in initial public offerings, and it may just open up a whole new source of capital for start-ups. Called a "public-private" deal, it ...  Read more

Climbing To The Top Of The Charts

By Abby Solomon |  Sep 1, 1983

Microcomputer software sales are heading for the stratosphere. But the most popular programs aren't necessarily the best.  Read more

The Tie That Binds

By Abby Solomon |  Nov 1, 1983

Microcomputer to mainframe and micro to mini communications are hot topics today -- with good reason. For many growing companies, these links could provide a...  Read more

Industries In Transition

By Abby Solomon |  Dec 1, 1983

Terry Dorman's parents didn't pay much attention when their 19-year-old son and his friend Peter Bogdonoff set up a silk-screening shop in the Dorman base...  Read more

Asking The Right Questions

Sep 1, 1982

So, you've decided to take the graphics plunge and either purchase a computer-based graphics system or add graphics software to that dandy little personal...  Read more

The Pc Crapshoot

By John Case |  Apr 1, 1984

"If you're a stockholder in the personal computer business, you've probably had your head handed to you by now," says Peter Wright, vice-president of Gart...  Read more

The A-pac Gamble

Nov 1, 1983

Necessity lurks behind Action Instruments Inc.'s move toward industrial computers. As the pace of computerization in manufacturing and processing plants p...  Read more

Bread In Boards

By Joel Kotkin |  Jun 1, 1984

While the personal computer business has developed into a battleground for the giants, with the likes of IBM Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. duking it out f...  Read more

"face To Face" With Adam Osbourne

By George Gendron |  Nov 1, 1983

If Osbourne Computer Corp. had a dollar for every time its founder has been characterized as "egotistical," "abrasive,' "stubborn," "opinionated," or "arr...  Read more

A Software Package Under The Tree

By Abby Solomon |  Dec 1, 1983

Not long ago, using a microcomputer to handle personal finances was as popular as filing recipes electronically. Kitchen wizardry with the home computer i...  Read more

Do-it-yourself Publishing

By Jeffrey Tarter |  Jun 1, 1986

The new desktop systems can save you time and money. And you control the copy from beginning to end.  Read more

Making The Most From Your Computer

By Rod E. Packer |  Aug 1, 1984

Keep track of your investments with a computer What do insiders know that the rest of us don't?  Read more

Salt Lake City, Utah

By Greg Critser |  Jan 1, 1986

THE INSULAR MORMON CULTURE THAT ONCE BROUGHT ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IS NOW A MAJOR LIABILITY FOR BUSINESS OWNERS.  Read more

Organized Time

By Abby Solomon |  Jan 1, 1984

Microcomputer programs designed to increase personal productivity haven't been runaway best-sellers. Recent developments, though, are now making these packag...  Read more

How G. H. Hoxie Put Management In Context

Jun 1, 1983

First released in July 1982 -- a good half-year before Lotus Development Corp.'s 1-2-3 -- Context MBA was the first integrated management-planning program...  Read more

Adam Osborne

By Robert A. Mamis |  Nov 1, 1983

"When you become an entrepreneur you can go up awfully fast, but you can go down just as fast. It's so ephemeral, like actors who end up committing suicide. ...  Read more

The Hottest Entrepreneur In America Is The "smart Team" At Compaq Computer

By Joel Kotkin |  Feb 1, 1986

Companies like Compaq are emerging from the high-tech shakeout stronger than ever. Their secret: avoiding the one-man shown. Is there a lesson here for the r...  Read more

Have It Your Way

By Abby Solomon |  Apr 1, 1984

Program generators can allow you to be your own best source for software.  Read more

Information On Demand

May 1, 1984

One day last winter, Donal Duncan, a Portola Valley, Calif., business consultant, returned home to find a cryptic message on his answering machine. A man ...  Read more

Friday The 13th

By Vin McLellan |  Oct 1, 1983

The call came from IBM offering Martin Alpert a deal that could give his company a lock on its market. But he wasn't celebrating.  Read more

Getting More Out Of Visicalc

By Steve Ditlea |  Oct 1, 1982

VisiCalc and other electronic spreadsheets became more popular because they quickly answered 'what if' questions. Now many users find that these programs can...  Read more

The Inc. 500 Honor Roll

By Curtis Hartman |  Dec 1, 1986

You could write the book on business growth from the strategies of the companies that have made the INC. 500 five years running.  Read more

Unlimited Partners

By Joel Kotkin |  May 1, 1985

Fast-changing markets are forcing companies to redefine the art of subcontracting.  Read more

Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom

By Eugene Linden |  Apr 1, 1984

Some of America's biggest corporations are discovering that their future may depend on thinking small.  Read more

Big Game

By Gerald Lanson |  Nov 1, 1984

TO THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE AND SELL IT, TRIVIAL PURSUIT IS NOT WAY TO SPEND A PLEASANT EVENING  Read more

Of Stings And States

By George Gendron |  Oct 1, 1983

IBM Corp., as we all know, is a company that does a lot of things very well. One of the things that IBM does particularly well is keeping outsiders guessi...  Read more

A Buyer's Guide To Personal Business Computers

Oct 1, 1981

The following 14 personal business computers can handle a variety of useful business applications. Yet they involve no more setup than a component stereo...  Read more

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