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Latter-day Robin Hoods?: Marcello Rocca, a 25-year-old computer wizard, and his brother Mario, left, who's trained in accounting, hold their Trojan computer, cheaper than but compatible with IBM machines
Latter-day Robin Hoods?: Marcello Rocca, a 25-year-old computer wizard, and his brother Mario, left, who's trained in accounting, hold their Trojan computer, cheaper than but compatible with IBM machines

Latter-day Robin Hoods?: Marcello Rocca, a 25-year-old computer wizard, and his brother Mario, left, who's trained in accounting, hold their Trojan computer, cheaper than but compatible with IBM machines

Date11/29/1985
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Computer crunch: John Rowley, shown here with computer components, says there's a shortage of trained engineering personnel and computer programming experts
Computer crunch: John Rowley, shown here with computer components, says there's a shortage of trained engineering personnel and computer programming experts
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Computer Wizard Prof. Richard Judy
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Oleh Trojan. He'd rather fight
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Beaty, Keith
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Ben Cramer is the man who set up the computer system at City Hall to centralize all the information from all the city departments. Anyone who wants to find out how much has been spent on a particular program has to do no more than push a computer button to get the answer in seconds.
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On line: John Swinden, national director of the computer audit group at chartered accountants Clarkson Gordon, says when small computers are introduced in a large corporation problems can result
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Canadian Technology, says Gary Glover of Control Date Canada, went into development of the Cyber series of large-scale computers, including the one used by farmers. Company also exports computers.
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Loek, Dick
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Combs, Erin
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Loek, Dick
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