Part 148 (1/2)

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”OK, OK, what is it?”

”Don't sound so grateful”

”Where the hell are you?” Scott asked sounding slightly more awake

”At the office”

”At four?”

”You're pushi+ng your luck”

”I'ht There are bunches of viruses You can use this ECCO received reports of a quar- ter otta be ten times that number that haven't been reported”

”Whose?”

”Everybody for Christ's sake American Gen, Compton Industries, First Life, Banks, and, this is almost funny, the entire town of Fallsworth, Idaho”

”Excuse me?”

Thursday, February 25

TOWN DISAPPEARS By Scott Mason

The town of Fallsworth, Idaho is facing a unique problem It is out of business

Fallsworth, Idaho, population 433, has a computer population of 611

But no one in the entire incorporation of Fallsworth has ever bought or paid for a single piece of software or hardware

Three years ago, the town counsel approved a plan tocommunity the most computerized townshi+p in the United States, and it seems that they succeeded Apparently the city hall of Fallsworth was contacted by representatives of Apple Computer Would they like to be part of an experiment?

Apple Computer provided every home and business in the Fallsworth area with a computer and the necessary equipether into one toide network The city was a pilot program for the Electronic City of the future The residents of Fallsworth were trained to use the computers and Apple and associated companies provided the townshi+p beta copies of software to try out, play with and comment on

Fallsworth, Idaho was truly the networked city

Lily Williams and members of the other 172 households in Falls- worth typed out their grocery lists on their co from Malcolm Druckers'

General Store When the orders arrived at the Drucker cooods just had to be loaded in the pick up truck Druckers'