Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans?has astonishing powers that are already transforming society. For the so-called miracle chip has a calculating capability equal to that of a room-size computer of only 25 years ago. Unlike the hulking Calibans of vacuum tubes and tangled wires from which it evolved, it is cheap, easy to mass produce, fast, infinitely versatile and convenient...
Intel's little chip had repercussions far beyond the pocket-calculator and minicomputer field. It was so small and cheap that it could be easily incorporated into almost any device that might benefit from some "thinking" power: electric typewriters with a memory, cameras, elevator controls, a shopkeeper's scales, vending machines, and a huge variety of household appliances. The new chip also represented another kind of breakthrough: because its program was on a different chip, the microprocessor could be "taught" to do any number of chores. All that had to be done was to substitute a tiny program...
There are also occasions when Ashby reaches for cheap ironies. Luke's passionate lovemaking is glibly contrasted to the mechanical bedroom manner of Sally's husband. The vintage rock songs on the sound track, while important to the film's sense of period, are sometimes used to comment upon the action too literally...
...Volkswagen Beetle started out as the car that nobody wanted to build. Ferdinand Porsche, who designed it, dreamed from the early 1920s of a "people's car" that would provide the kind of cheap transportation that Henry Ford's flivvers gave the U.S. Even after Adolf Hitler came to power and ordered automakers to produce a small car, Porsche's plans for his slope-nosed oddity got nowhere. Not until 1938, when Hitler made tt a state project did the Volkswagen become a reality-just in time to be modified into a Jeep-like military vehicle...
Several patrons of "Father's" Six contacted last night said they do not mind the practices. One customer said last night, "You gotta have a gimmick to get the girls to come here--it don't bother me that they drink for cheap...