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...music lovers and electronics manufacturers, digital audio tape represented a terrific technological leap -- a way to make crisp, distortion-free copies of compact discs and digital broadcasts. But recording-industry artists and executives heard an entirely different tune. To them, DAT would dampen compact disc sales, because one CD could be used to make countless perfect copies. The upshot of the argument was that DAT recorders, sold in Japan and Europe for about two years, have been virtually unavailable in the U.S. Now the two sides have at last found a way to end their dispute. Result: before long Americans...
...Museum of the Revolution and fire into the crowd. Panic-stricken people fell to the pavement or cowered behind the imperial city's ornate stone lions. Many sought sanctuary at the Beijing Hotel complex, where military officers later combed through rooms searching for foreign journalists' notebooks and audio-and videotapes...
...operating unit is only the size of a pizza box; older units with equivalent power were too big to fit on a desktop. Two years in the making, SPARCstation 1 is able to execute more than 12 million instructions a second. The computer also comes with a built-in audio system that can record and play back sounds ranging from voice mail to rock 'n' roll...
Tonight--A 7:30 "teach-in" at the Kennedy School of Government. Alumni will describe the events of the '69 strike and their effect on the students and the rest of the Harvard community. Alumni will also play an audio tape of the police break-in of University Hall narrated by ABC-news correspondent Chris Wallace '69. Leonard Lehrman will perform the SDI Waltz...
There are even more ambitious plans in the works. In a project called Smart House, an offshoot of the National Association of Home Builders is developing a revolutionary wiring system that would supply not only AC power but also telephone, audio, video and high-speed data signals to every electrical outlet in the house. The wiring would enable homeowners to plug anything from a telephone to a waffle iron into one of the new outlets, and the socket would determine whether to deliver a dial tone or 120 volts...