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...most sophisticated computer control and communications centers in the U.S. It is a remarkable patchwork of off-the-shelf electronics parts, including a desktop computer, a remote-control video recorder, a scattering of video games and pinball machines, a conference-type telephone system and a backyard antenna big enough to broadcast network-quality television signals. All of it was pieced together during the past five years by Gary and Ted Ruscitti, 29, a high school friend. They plowed through catalogues and hounded manufacturers for $60,000 worth of free components. They also taught themselves everything from computer programming...
...master," replies HAL. Outside, on the edge of a tree-lined ravine behind the Marince home, a 13-ft. parabolic dish antenna jolts into motion and begins sweeping the sky. It stops and focuses on a communications satellite orbiting 22,300 miles above the equator...
...space age, the help came. On its regular sweep over western Canada, a Soviet satellite, equipped with special electronic "ears" to hear the beeps of small planes or ships in distress, picked up the downed aircraft's automatic emergency beacon and relayed the signals to an antenna outside Ottawa. There a computer quickly used them to obtain a navigational "fix" on the crash site. Within hours, a helicopter plucked the three men out of the wilderness, injured but alive...
...front of Eliot House, a short man in a gray jockey was shouting at the Class of '57 and that families in a high, singsong voice. "Hey, do we love Harvard? Yes we do Everybody loves Harvard. Yes, yes, we do! hey, hos about a antenna for your head...
...matching codes and dual-key procedures applies aboard the 15 or so U.S. nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines that are on 70-day patrol at any given time. They are always submerged, observing radio silence, and receive a stream of messages by means of a 2,400-ft. antenna that the boat trails above and behind it, just below the ocean surface. Usually this incoming traffic consists of routine instructions, equipment tests and 40-word "familygrams" for the crew. But the message could also be a much shorter, infinitely