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July 1998

TECH TALK TUESDAY – Windows wants your money … again and again.

nancy Techie Tues 9-2-97

But if you like the way your computer works now, pass on upgrading to Windows 98.
Besides, next spring they’re throwing it out for an all new NT!

Windows 98 not for everyone
by John De Bellis

Within days of its June 25 launch in the United States, Windows 98, Microsoft’s updated operating system, came under fire from computer manufacturers and home users. 
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TECH TALK TUESDAY – Surviving Hiroshima

nancy Techie Tues 9-2-97

It’s been a half century – but the survivors of Nuclear War are still suffering from strange and painful ailments.

Activists like Sunao Tsuboi talk about their experiences in the hope that such a war never happens again.

Nuclear War Survivor
on Lecture Tour 

by Akiko Shiozaki

HIROSHIMA–Sunao Tsuboi needs daily doses of medicine and weekly drip transfusions to maintain his health, but that doesn’t stop him from hopping across Japan to give a couple of lectures a day, retelling the tragedy of the nuclear bomb explosion he experienced 53 years ago. 
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