European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Some men got. Some Pfay baseball Marvin Musky an artificial intelligence researcher at Mit. Has Long defended the Hacker As no Rifle rent from of hrs who arc seriously devoted to their work. Bui other More personal issues surface too. In discussions of men who Are obsessed Wilh their computers Power and control Are words Hal inevitably turn up and the ramifications of their link with computer use can be seen Al Home and on the Job. The tendency Losi in front of the machine forever was incredible said Dertouzos. It s a Power trip a sense of tremendous control Over a machine that does not behave As unpredictably As some of our friends ,. A added it is hard to relate to machines in the sense Hal you relate to humans. The very things that men seem to treasure Power and control Are  perhaps Dunham suggested there is such a person As a  who tools that to lacks control in the corporate culture and finds control Power and a higher sense of sell a Sloe in working on a computer Hal does j his bidding loyally patiently and predictably. Of Dunham surmised that computer addiction like f. Other forms of addiction is based on psychological denial a substitute or escape mechanism from some. Roslily Hal they Don t want  s a Safe place Lor someone to get away he said. It s demanding enough that it gels you into it. There s an Clement of danger the same As any other addiction. And Cyl it s easy to rationalize because Hay it s my Job i have to do  a societal element is there too he said. It s also socially acceptable us like smoking gambling or alcohol used Oba acceptable addictions in discussing computer addiction the experts consider it almost exclusively a male problem. Why Are men More so than women so prone to it is computer addiction an escape mechanism from some reality that people Don t want to face David Zug Broil a planning research analyst at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh who is studying the Issue of gender and technology summarized the findings of Normal research on the Issue. Males compute More than women he said. A higher proportion of males get involved in compiling. Males like computers More than women  but he asked is sex a explanation the answer is unclear so Zubrow said he was looking Lor other explanations. What processes produce what to observe As Gondar differences he asked. They May have Little to do with computing flood of pent tip demand is turning laptops into one of the hottest segments of computer business. $10,000 because of the expense of the batteries. Energy saving cmos memory chips and the Complex technology of hat screens the hat screens of laptops hip up like the top of a Clamshell and usually display 25 lines Al a Lime in comparison to the 40 tines of a regular personal computer brightness and contrast although much improved still Don t match those of full sized pcs once on the Road Laptop owners  abundant Amber 28,198b headaches no place to recharge Baueries no modular phone jacks Hole phone switches thai can t handle Dala transmissions 3w-Inch disks thai Aren t compatible Wilh other people s 5 Winch disks. Still something keeps Laptop users lapping away. Laptops like cellular phones allow people to keep working while others Are stuck in Frallic or thumbing through the in Leighl Magazine. Tipy also encourage spontaneity by telling Puoplo record or try out ideas White they Are Iresh. A bit of terminology associated press ome terms abbreviations acronyms in the world of Home electronics and computers. Bit an acronym Tor binary digit. Actual data transmitted takes the farm of electrical impulses. These can be though Otas either on or Oil or 1 and 0. The pulses Are bils. Byte a unit of storage usually the size of one character of information. Compatible a computer system that can also handle data and programs devised for other systems. Most common Are ism compatible meaning the computers run software developed lot ism machines. Cd compact disc. Cdv compact disc video. Dat digital audio tape data base the collection of All data used and produced by a computer program. Also called data Bank disk a revolving plate on which Dala and programs Are stored. Hard disks Are rigid magnetic disks in3 sealed Container a last auxiliary storage device that makes Large numbers of programs and information available for instant Access. Floppy disks or diskettes Ore flexible disks that provide Low Cost storage and Are used widely with minicomputers and microcomputers. They come in 8-Frtch, 514-Inch and 3vi-Inch diameters the disk drive is the part of the computer that roads or writes information on a magnetic disk and moves data and programs Between the disk and the computer s memory. Dos an acronym Lor disk operating system. It is composed of one or More diskettes on which data can be stored and one or More disk drives to read the information stored on the disks. K abbreviation Lor kilobyte. It Means 1,024 bytes. Similarly 64k Means 64 times 1.021 bytes or 65,536 bytes not 64,000. / cd to liquid Crystal display television memory v the part of the computer that stores data and irom which information can be retrieved. A kilobyte is the measure of the memory capacity microcomf1jter a very Small compile which  Borago system. Or Marly used As a personal computer or Lora Small office system. Storage generally is Tess than that of a Minicomputer. A microprocessor is the processor of a microcosm Pulber Iho Chip thai contains the  its processing capacity is measured in bile. V Modem literally modulate Demodulate. A device that allows computers to communicate with a Central data base via a phone line. Mouse the Smalt hand hold control device that can be moved on a desktop to make the cursor move across the computer screen. Ram rom ram is an acronym for random Access memory an area of computer memory that can be manipulated by the user rom is an acronym Lor read Only memory an area of computer memory whom operating instructions and other programs reside permanently. Programs in this area of the computer can be activated but not altered by is user. Spreadsheet a computerized Ledger Sheet. Software computer programs that Tell tha computer to do a specific task. Word processing writing and editing with an electronic keyboard and computer. The stars and stripes Page 15