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HP slashes technical workstation prices
Looking to expand the market for its Unixbased technical workstations, HewlettPackard Co. last week slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its most popular models. The price cuts come 16 months after HP began consolidating its workstation manufacturing facilities and restructuring its business ope
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FTS chief stands strong on services
Original artwork commemorating the Persian Gulf War adorns the walls of Dennis Fischer's office in Tysons Corner, Va. The painting holds a special meaning for Fischer, the commissioner of the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service, because it recalls the one time in his life w
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Locate GPS info on Coast Guard site
Last month the Pentagon and the Transportation Department agreed to add two civilian frequencies to the Global Positioning System, giving added importance to an upcoming Coast Guard meeting on civilian GPS. The Pentagon/DOT agreement, according to Vice President Al Gore, will improve numerous comme
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Corrections
The story 'Toshiba gives new look to Equium line' [FCW, March 16] included an incorrect estimate for the time it takes to put memory or change the motherboard in the Toshiba Equium 7000S and 7000D. The correct amount is 10 seconds to add memory and 30 seconds to change the motherboard. In the March
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Compaq enters Gigabit Ethernet switch market
Compaq Computer Corp., best known for its servers and personal computers, entered the Gigabit Ethernet market last week with the introduction of two switches that it says will increase bandwidth on agency networks. Compaq already sells hubs, routers and other products that support Ethernet, Fast Et
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Army picks three vendors to provide peripherals, software products
Sixteen months after restructuring its manufacturing and business operations, HewlettPackard Co. today slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its Unixbased technical workstations.
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IT problems at the root of government's audit woes
Members of Congress and the General Accounting Office today said shortcomings in agencies' information technology systems including everything from security to poorly integrated systems were one of the reasons agencies cannot generate accurate financial statements.
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Feds ramping up Y2K outreach program
Sixteen months after restructuring its manufacturing and business operations, HewlettPackard Co. today slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its Unixbased technical workstations.
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HP slashes Unix workstation prices
Sixteen months after restructuring its manufacturing and business operations, HewlettPackard Co. today slashed prices by up to 37 percent on its Unixbased technical workstations.
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Welcome Relief
The day before the Federal Emergency Management Agency's quickresponse team rolled into town, the swollen Red River crept over a dike and turned Grand Forks, N.D., and its sister city,
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GPS system to gain two signals in 2005
Vice President Al Gore said a joint military/civilian board agreed to add two additional signals for civil users to Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites slated to go into service in 2005.
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Letter From the Editors
On March 23, 1997, Federal Computer Week celebrated its 10th anniversary. Milestones are important, and we wanted to publish something special for the occasion. But we didn't want to produce a typical anniversary issue, complete with nostalgia about computer systems of old and predictions about the
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Opening Doors and Lives
It was not unusual for the Hadleys, a deeply religious family living in Paducah, Ky., to discuss serious subjects while having dinner. One recent discussion for the Hadley family Chuck, Gwen and their three children: Christina, 15; Nicole, 14; and Andrew, 12 was about organ donation. Nicole, w
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Cyclone Silicon
On April 25, 1994, G.W. Burnett was sitting in the den of his ranchstyle home in DeSoto, Texas, watching a Texas Rangers baseball game on TV, when a news bulletin flashed on the screen. A tornado had been sighted about 15 miles northwest of DeSoto. Although he lives in what Texans refer to as 'Tor
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Friendlier Skies
It was a bright, sunny morning a good day for flying, Capt. Ross Sagun thought as he boarded the 737 and took his seat in the cockpit. Sagun anticipated a smooth trip from Las Vegas to Denver, and he and the crew prepared for departure. Sagun received clearance from the control tower and taxied t
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To Catch a Thief
He was the last one off the bus. Customs Service senior inspector Virginia Rodriguez, standing just less than 5 feet tall, looked up at the bearded man in the aqua Tshirt and asked him, as she does thousands of others crossing the border into Texas, why he went to Mexico.
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State and Local Leaders Back Revised Internet Tax Bill
State and Local Leaders Back Revised Internet Tax Bill
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Found in Space
The U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division known as the Big Red One attacked Saddam Hussein's vaunted Republican Guard and a brigade of regular Iraqi troops Feb. 26, 1991, at 10 p.m., with no moon to shed light on the landscape of the Iraqi desert. The Iraqi forces, some 8,000 men, were part of Sadd
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The Whole Wired World
It's hard to overstate the impact of the Internet on American life. In the past four years, the Internet has become as significant a technology as the telephone, the TV or the personal computer. Originally designed to help defend the country from foreign attack, this network of networks is so much
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