What would your employer do if he found pornography, including hundreds of depictions of children having sex, on your work computer? If you have a job at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, the answer is not much. Eric Knuth, an employee in the university’s information technology services department, remains on the job despite a recommendation […]
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Renewed computers, renewed lives
It’s yet another Saturday work day at Springfield’s Computer Banc, where digital wizards infuse computers with new hope for the future. A pale green panel van backs up to a door in the small, ordinary white building on a nondescript asphalt lot at 1023 East Washington. The driver swings open the van’s back doors. The […]
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Bringing Computer Banc back to life
“The report of my death is an exaggeration.” —Mark Twain, May 1897. To paraphrase the great American storyteller, the report of Computer Banc’s demise was a bit premature. After abruptly closing its doors Sept. 2, Computer Banc has reopened with limited operations. It resumed distribution of computers beginning Oct. 1. “When the board met Sept. […]
