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. Another sets on the dining room table in the next room, looking a bit incongruous amid the early American furniture. Others now run the farm while he concentrates on a new business: Creating computers systems and software for farmers.

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.

by Francine Sevel

from the July 1983 issue of TODAY magazine

Just the right touch of entertainment is often as much a part of a restaurant’s charm as that secret recipe handed down from generation to generation. And, as time and technology have revolutionized every aspect of society, restaurants have had to keep pace. Even pizza parlors have not escaped the wheels of motion.

Today’s number one pizza chain not only has a full array of pizza selections: double cheese, thick vs. thin crust, anchovies vs. olives, salad bar, deli sandwiches, beer and wine, but also the state-of-the-art equipment for high-technology entertainment.