Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...festivities yesterday afternoon in the Widener Library reading room weren't for any candidate--they were for Harvard's new computer card catalog system...
Although HOLLIS--the Harvard OnLine Library Information System--has been operating since Labor Day, yesterday's official grand opening gave library administrators and officials a chance to publicly praise the new $3 million computer card catalog system...
...machine shared by other users, the code spread from one computer to another. Before long, the so- called Brain or Pakistani virus had found its way onto at least 100,000 floppy disks, sometimes with data-destroying impact. In each case the illicit program left behind a calling card for those savvy enough to find it: a message that began with the words WELCOME TO THE DUNGEON, and was signed by two men named Amjad and Basit...
...newest evening newscast contains no crime footage, no clips of Bush and Dukakis trading jabs on the campaign trail, no fluffy features on roller- skating or baseball-card collectors. A typical show last week opened instead with a nearly 6-min. report on the upcoming election in Chile. That was followed by an examination of political unrest in Burma, which began in the leisurely tones of a travelogue: "Burma, a gentle land, devoutly Buddhist, dotted with the spires of golden pagodas, a place where time seems to be standing still...
...official had already slapped the Columbia player with a red card as well...