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The next home computer

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Home computers have always frustrated their users by becoming obsolete after a few years even though they cost an average of $2000. Network computers, or NCs, might change all that. They are projected to cost $500 and have no hard disks or CD-ROM drives. Instead, they directly access the Internet.

Author: Smith, Gina
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 1996
Computer terminals, Computer Terminal Manufacturing, Terminals, Innovations, Microcomputers, Forecasts and trends

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Schools of the future?

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The plan of the US government to improve the information technology in the classrooms by the year 2000 is farfetched. The integration of computers in the classrooms would require an increased budget, which most of the schools are incapable of providing.

Author: Smith, Gina
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Popular Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0161-7370
Year: 1996
Usage, Computers, Economic aspects, Digital computers, Equipment and supplies, Information technology, Schools, Science and state, Science policy

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