DIVIDENDS & INTEREST

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Craig Chappelow

“This paper was completely written on a personal computer.”

I had the feeling of breaking new ground when I wrote that line as a graduate student in 1981. Today if I attached that statement to something I wrote, I imagine the reaction from people would be the same one that I get from our teenage baby-sitter when I say something that is painfully obvious: “Well, duh!” Many would think, “How else would you write a paper other than on a PC? With a piece of coal on the back of a shovel, Abe Lincoln style?”

I laughed out loud when I found the paper recently as I rummaged through some storage boxes in our house. Its subject was the potential for personal technology in business, and at the time ...

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