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To: BayView who wrote (5478)	4/23/1998 1:25:00 AM
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BayStack Instant Internet Gateway "Product of the Year" ... "This award marks the fifteenth time in the past two years that the BayStack Instant Internet gateway has been recognized for excellence by the computer industry trade press. The Product of the Year award article summed up the Instant Internet gateway's benefits to the customer: "Connecting your entire PC LAN to the Internet through a single IP address is a snap with Bay Networks' Instant Internet, a complete hardware/software solution," said Networking Solutions Magazine. "Simple to use and install, Instant Internet provides a dependable Internet connection solution that is compatible with NetWare, Windows 95 and Windows NT." ... businesswire.com

To: BayView who wrote (5478)	4/28/1998 3:35:00 AM
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THE 1998 COMPUTER BOWL(R) TOP 10 QUESTIONS CHECK YOUR OWN TECHNICAL I.Q. Five high-tech industry leaders from the West Coast defeated their East Coast rivals in The Computer Museum's Tenth Annual Computer Bowl(R), the ultimate contest of computing minds, presented by Ziff-Davis, on April 24, 1998. The final score was 230 to 70. The Computer Bowl MVP Awards, underwritten by Bay Networks and Intel Corporation... The Computer Bowl will air nationally during the weeks of May 5 and May 12, 1998, as special editions of the award-winning public television show, Computer Chronicles. 1) According to the Scientific American, researchers at Silicon Graphics recently used an unusual technique to generate random numbers. Was it counting raindrops; watching a lava lamp; throwing darts at a target; or hula dancing? 2) What musician created the Windows 95 startup sound: David Bowie, David Byrne, Brian Eno, or Elton John? 3) James Cameron's blockbuster movie, Titanic, made extensive use of computer-generated effects. What is the greatest number of computer-generated people you can see on screen at any one time? Approximately 10, 50, 1000, or 2000? 4) The Portable Rechargeable Battery Association wants the Federal Aviation Administration to prohibit airline passengers from recharging their laptop computers in flight. Why? 5) Noel Godin did something in February 1998 that got him tremendous attention in the high-tech world. What did he do? (Hint: it happened in Belgium). 6) How many microprocessors are there on Mars? Two, five, ten, or one thousand? 7) Which of the following is NOT a real website: The Cat That Looks Like Hitler; The Official French Fries Page; Driveways of the Rich and Famous; or Underwater Baseball? 8) Electronic Engineering Times recently dubbed this the most common man-made object on earth. Is it the D-RAM; the microprocessor; the electric motor; or the resistor? 9) The DigiPen Institute of Technology is a new four-year college, the first to specialize solely in computer-game programming. Is it in Redmond, Wash.; San Jose, Calif.; Cambridge, Mass.; or Hong Kong? 10)IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing computer was fast, but their new $85 million computer, Option White, will be even faster. How much faster? 10 times, 100 times, 1000 times, or 1 million times faster?