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...biggest players certainly came out swinging last week in Manhattan, where both IBM and Tandy staged long-awaited product announcements. In a much ballyhooed presentation party at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, Tandy introduced two personal-computer models targeted for use in high schools and colleges, another aimed at the office market and a lap-top model designed for executives on the go. The occasion gave the Texas-based company a chance to renew its claim of having pioneered the mass marketing of personal computers with the August 1977 introduction of its model TRS-80. For Tandy Chairman John Roach...
...diversity of new products available. The most exciting ingredient, which will be the heart of 50 different computer models by year's end, is a $235 piece of silicon known as the 80386 microchip. It is this flat, black chip -- smaller than a matchbook -- that has powered the biggest advance in computer technology in recent memory. The 80386 brings to personal computers the speed and power that were once available only in larger and much more expensive minicomputers. IBM, Compaq and Tandy have built new high-end machines around this chip, which is made by California-based Intel. Apple uses...
Still, he says that the biggest enemy is not Thatcher but apathy. In an effort to combat indifference in the U.K., Bragg helped form Red Wedge, a loose coalition of various music-makers and comics that has toured Great Britain in support of the Labour Party. Along with groups like the Housemartins, Style Council and the Blow Monkeys, Bragg traveled in the Red Wedge Battle Bus doing benefit shows, press conferences and general rabble-rousing in order to stir up the youth vote. Not quite the entourage of your typical rock star...
Nonetheless Jayewardene, 80, is taking the biggest gamble in his nine years as President. The accord has angered his party and strained the loyalty of the 45,000-strong armed forces. The opposition parties and Buddhist monks, who are an influential force in Sinhalese society, were in the vanguard of the demonstrations. Said Madihe Pannanseeha, chief priest of the Amarapura Chapter of Buddhists: "India's aim is the total subjugation of Sri Lanka...
...Naval officers in the gulf had predicted that one of the biggest threats to their ships would come from mines. But no minesweeping ships or helicopters were included in the operation. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger conceded that the Pentagon was not prepared for the possibility that the sea-lane skirting the Iranian coast might be mined. "We did not look for mines in that area," he said, "because there have never been...