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DEC, the second biggest US computer
co←pany, is planning to re-enter
the personal computer market.
Tandy is to design and make the ojw
machine to DEC's specification, but
it will be marketed by DEC under
tPj@co←panz's@own@↑aZe.
DEC dropped out of the personal
computer market four years ago
after its Rainbow range flopped.
Since then it has produced software
allowing Apple machines to be
linVjd into DEC networSs. A similar
facility is available for the IBM
Source5 FT
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P701CEEFAX 701 Wed 19@Oct 12:01/11
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A@Wales-based company has developed
a houble-density CD to be used for
storing computer data.
It is done by packing the pits
containing tPj information closer
together on the disc.
Thj firm says it should be abli to
dokble tPj disc's@capacity@agai→ -
making an ordinary CD capable of
storing 2.)@gigabytes@of data.
It is waiting for a cheap blue-ligXt
laser. This is works on a shorter
)) wavele→Fth@tha↑ tPj lasers@in @@@
conventional CD players and is
Source: New Scientist
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Ten teenage hackers in Las Vegas
have run@up phone bills@jstimateh
at $650,000 - and thjir parents may
have to pay@up.
Thjy@are reported to have used
their home micros to "jump"
circuits in thj phone company's
computers.
As a result they were able to
telephone anzwhere in the world.
FB
seized their computers after the
phonj company reported@unusual
activity on their lines.
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Source: AP
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Makers of optical disc systems seem
to delight in bombarding potential
customers with bizarre information.
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In the latest, each disc is said to
be capable@of storing one million
A4 single spaced sheets of text.
This, we are told, is the equivalent
of 800,000@frames of@Zicrofilm,
which would stretch 19 miles.
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Thj samj firm says there ari 75
billion pieces@of paper in
Britain's 12 million filing
cabinjts - and z+@per cent of them
will never see the light of day
)( again.
Source: PA
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The police are to get a new
↑ational@co←puter network.
For tPj first time, officers on tPe
beat will have direct access to
information from all@over the
country.
At present all police forces have
accesv to PO ZE"@(HoYj@Ofeice Latge@
Major Inquiry System), but the new
network will be the first to linR
tegional databases.
Two possibli spin-offs may be a
country-wide automatic fingerprint
system and a national collection of
( "mugshots"@of@offenders.
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