Word: beeped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beeped, so I checked my computer. Somebody I did not know started a conversation. He read my "who is" message, which was in Spanish, and decided to beep...
Tired of people whose watches beep periodically to remind them an hour has passed? This Seiko timepiece beeps for a better reason: to signal an incoming phone message. With the press of a button, the caller's number appears on the watch face. The combination watch and beeper enables owners to stay in touch without clipping a boxy beeper on a belt or stuffing one in a handbag. Beeper telephone service must be arranged separately...
Thanksgiving weekend was quiet in the Long Island, New York, home of Michelle Slatalla and Josh Quittner. Too quiet. The phone didn't ring all weekend -- which is unusual for a pair of working journalists. Nor did they hear the familiar beep of electronic mail arriving from the Internet, although Quittner tried several times to log on. It wasn't until their tenant complained about a strange message on their answering machine that the couple investigated and discovered all was not well in their electronic cocoon...
Even Richard Stallman cannot abide by this high standard. To do anything more than beep when it is turned on, a computer needs an operating system. PCs require DOS, Macs use System 7, and workstations and mainframes use UNIX...
...HAPPENED IN MAYBE A MILLION TELEVISION shows: the monitor above a critically ill patient's bed goes beep, beep, beep . . . beeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Doctors and nurses rush to the bedside. The patient's heart has stopped, and the medical professionals go into a frenzy trying to start it up again...