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Customer Service: The Last Word

Profile of a software company whose quality and superb customer service result in word-of-mouth sales.  Read more

Pint-size Computers

As of now, most portable computers are more deadweight than lightweight. Still, if you are looking for a complete business machine to go home to office, you ...  Read more

The Birth Of An Industry

Working in their attics, basements, and garages, seven entrepreneurs tacked together a totally new industry.  Read more

How Software Is Manufactured

It is important to distinguish between software authors and publishers, though they may overlap. The author writes the program itself, which involves a d...  Read more

Joining The Network

Now your office and factory can communicate quickly by means of a system that links up computerized equipment.  Read more

New Options In Office Printers

Whether you are looking for speed, low cost, high quality, or all three, there is probably a machine on the market that fills the bill.  Read more

How A Dentist's Office Opened A Little Wider

Most evenings, when Dr. Laurence Barsh drives from his downtown Boston dental office to his house in suburban Newton, his Osborne 1 computer goes with him...  Read more

Computer Applications

According to The History of Computing Project, the prototype of the first microcomputer was introduced by the aptly named Micro Computer Inc., Los Angele...  Read more

The Swifty Lazars Of Software

One of the hottest agents around these days is a fellow by the name of John Brockman. He does not represent movie stars, or rock singers, or professional ...  Read more

Climbing To The Top Of The Charts

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

A Byte Of Education

Three years ago, learning to use a microcomputer was about as high a priority for a CEO as learning to type. That has changed. And if education is your goal,...  Read more

Micro Matter

OFF-THE-SHELF TRAINING Although computer manuals are finally becoming more intelligible, the emergence of alternatives to these murky texts was inev...  Read more

HP Points A Finger At IBM

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

The Tie That Binds

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

Organized Time

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

And The Computer Is Free

It's the new soft sell that is moving products at Advance Electronics in New York City these days. The retail computer store is selling a package of Micro...  Read more

Slim Pickings In The Software Garden

Like June in the old Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune, personal computers are bustin' out all over. An estimated 6.5 million units -- what the industry ...  Read more

Japan is the second-biggest market for technology products in the world, but most U.S. companies find it impossible to crack. The primary reason isn't tr...  Read more

Organizational Behavior

This article examines various personal-information-manager software packages and how they may match your work style.  Read more