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...electric typewriters, but also to position it for a move into the fast-expanding personal computer field. In 1980 top management secretly gave the go-ahead to an engineering team, cloistered at a plant in Boca Raton, Fla., to begin designing a small computer (the project was code-named Acorn). Twelve months later, the PC was rolling off the production line. Breaking with tradition, IBM had used many non-IBM components: the TV monitor came from Taiwan, the printer from Japan and the microprocessor from Intel Corp., a major chipmaker in which IBM last week acquired a 12% interest...
...alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon; President Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake box; Abe Lincoln...
Joseph H. Acorn Alamo, Calif...
...Harvard lights, winners of the Acorn Cup against Pennsylvania last weekend on Philadelphia's Schuylkill River, journey to the Biligin Bowl contest with Dartmouth and MIT in Hanover...
...same time, a minimum "lifeline" rate would be established for the nonaffluent residential consumer so that his basic gas and electricity needs would not soar beyond his ability to pay. The proposal is being pushed by a regional group, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN...