Alexander Saites - ComputerWorld 1973
IBM uses it giant corp status to block users from moving to other vendors.
Giant machine holds 466.8 million bytes.
Boston welfare department computer sends $5400 in checks to dead man.
Drs. A.L. Zobrist and F.R. Carlson at University of Southern California develop program to take advice to play chess. "Bobby Fischer, take notice."
Polariod offers $245 camera to take screenshots.
"Checkless Society? It's close" "THe Hempstead Bank has ended its experiment with a checkless/cashless society system even though all concerned were pleased with the operation."
100Mb, 2400 rpm disk drive cost $3000, roughly 25 billion times more expensive.
"Worldwide Spy Net on the Horizon": "Defense Intelligence Agency plans to begin runing tests this spring on an Arpanet-like system to link all of the defense-sponsored intelligence agencies into one worldwide network ... allowing for the internetting among the different systems operated by Defense spy agencies"
Radio stations use computers to prevent playing the same artist or song in a 4-hour block or the same playlist within the same 68-hour period; they would go bankrupt today, assuming they didn't put a bullet in their brain after listening to a top-10 station.
A TN company sells HP-code-cracking software for $5 to put pressure on HP to update its security.
"Watergate Computer Has No Bugs Yet": The "Watergate Computer" uses a series of computer programs to cross-reference the testimony of the various Nixon Administration officials
DP Users Face With Regulation-- people declare that user's security should not be self-regulated.
Teenager Takes Tymshare Time, costing Tymshare $1,850 while "playing tic-tac-toe, learning how to program, playing chess, stuff like that"
ACM Adopts Strong Ethics Code, But Nixes Enforcement Procedures. Seems kind of pointless.
Congressmen May Be Violating Rules With Computer System: "Some congressmen may be voting illegally through the House of Representatives computeriezed voting systems, but the problem is probably not one of technology but ethics."
Energy crisis no big deal to users.
Rule Broadens Fair-use Copyright Exception.