David Anderson - ComputerWorld 1976
Insurance Companies Indicted for Data Theft
56 Insurance companies acquired data illegally
Medical records “some computerized”
Several attorneys and private investigators indicted
Charged with conspiracy, impersonation, theft of trade secrets
IBM adds 3/15D, Nine Models of System 32
Designed to meet on-line and remote processing needs
Industry Application Programs
Aimed at the medical field
To upgrade to the 15D, users had to recompile all programs
15D was first to have a 3rd Partition
Run programs on 2 partitions and develop on 3rd
Improved File sharing between Partitions
Allowed Task to start other task without ‘Operator Intervention’
Text editing system stolen
Betram Seidlitz
Guilty of accessing OSI system via Texas Instruments terminal
Got 18 of 21 modules of a text editing system
“I did not read it or write it down and, when I had it all, I was going to take it to OSI in one bundle and show what I’d done”
New Software Stuff
“Data Errors Can and Must be Controlled”
“Structured System Design More Vital Than Language
New Computer Stuff
Larger disk Drive
IBM 'continues to be good'
Basic Timesharing expected to double
Mass Memory Mart predicts worth of 2 billion in 1980
Distributed Data entry with Task/Master
no price mentioned
basically sql database validation
Problem-Specific privacy laws seen needed by private sector
“Congress should concentrate on lows that address specific privacy problems rather than on omnibus privacy law for private sector
Congress currently pushing for law that restricts business to collect only “relevant data”
“How can a member of the government know what is relevant to each of the diverse companies?”
Terminals for sale
prices range from $975 to $2725
Users Urged to recognize full scope of data security
Data is important
DO NOT TRUST EMPLOYEES
Man/Machine interface utilizes human brain waves
People moved virtual item through maze via brain waves
Not thought controlled
Brain gives off signals when it thinks certain thoughts, machine mapped signals to desired actions
Miniterm 1203 for sale
knockout features
Only 15 pounds
Rugged Design can really take it
Three Speeds 10, 15, and 30 characters per second selectable
Brazilian Firm THreatens to Sue Cincom
Sistemas de Informacao S/C Ltd said license wasn’t expired
Cincom said it was
At the time just a threat, no amount mentioned
Position Announcements
Software Design $23-27 M
Systems Analysis $17-21 M
Program Analysis $ $18-21 M
System Analysis $2400 Y (the highest)
Average looks like 16-19 thousand a year