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...cheapest beeper to hit the market so far is Tandy Corp.'s $99.95 pocket pager. Smaller than a cigarette package, the pager can be activated merely by dialing a seven-digit number on an ordinary telephone. Like all beepers, it carries a monthly rental fee. Depending on the area, the cost will be about $4 to $8 a month, paid to the common carrier that transmits the signals; some carriers add a surcharge of 20? or so per beep. The pager was introduced in the Dallas-Fort Worth area last month, and should be available nationwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Many Are Going Beep! | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...spent $100,000 and converted four of his chain's 324 U.S. outlets into white boxes with black stripes: they look like supermarket generic packaging with signboards reading 39? HAMBURGER STAND. McDonald's and Burger King's cheapest burger goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basic Burgers | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...records, the Coop unquestionably offers the best value. We priced Rolling Stone magazine's top-ten new releases at Kennedy St. shops Discount Records and Strawberries, as well as at the Coop. Nine of the 10 albums were cheapest at the Coop. In addition, of the nine available at Discount Records, seven were more expensive than at Strawberries and the Coop...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: How the Coop Stacks Up | 2/2/1983 | See Source »

...balding, bearded and largely self-taught Sinclair (he passed up the uni versity) kept thinking small. In 1980 he introduced the world's littlest and cheapest personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80. Last September a more sophisticated version of the ZX80 made its debut in the U.S. as the Timex Sinclair 1000 (list price: $99). Since then, the 12-oz. units have been in a race with Commodore for top spot in worldwide computer sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Other Maestros of the Micro | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...begins its baseball coverage in Novembers--seven weeks ago and now in book form (Knopf even managed to squeeze in a three-and-a-half page postscript dated September 21 on the refugee camp massacre in a frenzy of greedy haste. One expects this sort of thing from the cheapest of publishers, those who catalogue the incineration of every organ of every boy of the men who died in the Iranian hostage rescue mission for consumption three days after the fact. Not two firms with the reputation these enjoy...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The First Casualty | 12/11/1982 | See Source »

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