from the May/June 1984 issue of Two/Sisteen magazine by Bro. Gary Eck, S.M. Since its introduction, very little has been published to describe the use of ARCNET in concrete situations. This article describes the experiences of one ARCNET installation. A giant of a computer system lies hidden in the Radio Shack product line. Based on the Model II and Model 12 workhorse computers, the ARCNET system allows for the linkingof many computers into a powerful, effective local area network system.

by Howard Baldwin RUNS BEOS ON INTEL AS NEW APPS ARE UNVEILED from the November 1997 issue of MacWorld magazine As Apple celebrates strong sales of Mac OS 8, Be (650/462-4100, www.be.com), developer of one of the oter operating systems for PowerPC CPUs, continues to bop along with new releases of its software. In July, the company shipped its BeOS Preview Release for PowerPC, followed by an update that adds AppleTalk printing and improves video drivers and IDE support.

from the July 1985 issue of Unix World magazine by David Spencer Current third-generation languages such as C and FORTRAN will have to move aside at some point for a new family of fourth-generation languages. At 30 years old, FORTRAN is graying at the temples; third-generation programming languages are in their heyday. So you are probably wondering how we will speak to computers during the next decade. If current projections hold true, computers will seem (and talk) more like us fairly soon.

by Judy Getts from the June 1987 issue of Computer Language Chuck Duff is the kind of man you’d expect to run into early in the morning in a university coffee shop, styrofoam cup in hand, talking Hegel with a student. You’d expect to see him in an art gallery rambling between the neoclassicists and linear chromatists, keen-eyed and at home, or even face-to-face in a folk-jazz cafe if you motioned the waitress aside and asked who is the James Beard behind the watercress crepes.

by Dixon P. Otto from the April 1983 issue of TODAY magazine “I had no intention of doing anything with computers again,” says Neale Bartter of Wooster, Ohio, reflecting on the time in 1974 when he gave up a computer career for farming. “Now I spend most of my time in here with the computer,” he says from the office of his turn-of-the-century home. He nodded towards the micro sitting on the desk next to him.

by David A. Bright from the July 1983 issue of Mini-Micro Systems magazine Franklin Computer Corp., once considered just another Apple Computer Inc. clone, is being closely monitored by the personal computer industry as it begins to move away from Apple’s shadow. With the hiring last spring of several key research and development personnel, Franklin has indicated that it intends to become a major independent personal computer supplier. Franklin’s first big move was hiring Avram Miller, former manager of Digital Equipment Corp.

Notes from the underground by Doug Merritt with Ken Arnold and Bob Toxen from the January 1985 issue of Unix Review magazine It was 2 am and I was lying face down on the floor in Cory Hall, the EECS building on the UC Berkeley campus, waiting for Bob to finish installing our bootleg copy of the UNIX kernel. If successful, new and improved terminal drivers we had written would soon be up and running.

from the December 1962 issue of Computers and Automation A thoughtful and interesting look into the role of computers in the literature of fantasy and science fiction. Marcia Ascher Asst. Prof. of Math. and Physics Ithaca College Ithaca, N. Y. An editorial in a local newspaper (1) stated: “We are just at the beginning of the computer age. Who (but a science fiction writer) would venture to predict what lies ahead?

from the August 1984 issue of Australian Micro Computerworld magazine Franklin Computer, maker of Apple-compatible computers, has filed for reorganisation under Chapter 11 of the US Federal Bankruptcy Code. In a prepared statement, Franklin president, Morton David said the company was experiencing falling sales and a “strain in financial resources’. To date, the company has about $US33.9 million in assets and $US22.8 million in liabilities, a spokesperson said. The company owes significant sums to at least 20 unsecured creditors.

An Optimistic Approach to Software Piracy By Charles Bowen and J. Stewart Schneider from the January/February 1983 issue of TODAY magazine Fellow man. It’s the kind of faith that, if contagious, could spawn a whole new kind of marketing in the microcomputer community. At a time when major software houses are spending tens of thousands of dollars in what some say is a futile effort to protect their programs against pirates, a man named Andrew Fluegelman gives his programs away.