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...orbiting 22,300 miles over the equator. The patchwork network enabled the candidate to conduct a live call-in show in which his image was beamed up to the satellite from a tiny studio in Des Moines, bounced back down to antennas at selected cable outlets, and distributed through coaxial TV cables to the homes of voters. As Dukakis talked about concerns ranging from health insurance to Social Security benefits, his show reached an estimated 1.5 million homes in Iowa and neighboring states. Total bill: $15,000, a fraction of what it would cost to contact that many people...
...miles of fiber-optic and coaxial cables run through the S.I.A.C. complex, which communicates with equally impressive banks of machines at major brokerage houses, as well as with tens of thousands of personal computers, passive desktop terminals, printers and other devices. S.I.A.C. relays information to at least 500 display terminals on the N.Y.S.E. trading floor alone. The exchange computers communicate in five different computer languages, manage almost 1,000 orders a second, and can handle a trading volume of 450 million shares daily, nearly twice the current record...
...telephone lines into three digital channels, allowing telephone customers to plug terminals directly into their wall sockets, without benefit of modem, and to program their phones like computers. Networking firms, such as 3Com, Sytek, Ungermann- Bass and Network Systems Corp., are stringing up mile after mile of high- speed coaxial and optical fiber cables and offering communications rates in excess of 275 million bits of information a second...
...which was organized by The Brown Applied Video Organization, plans to broadcast programs on Brown's coaxial cable network which currently links about 130 buildings and half of the dorm rooms at the Providence, R.I., campus...
...parent company of NBC, dropped $17 million on the Entertainment Channel before closing it last year. ABC and its partner, Westinghouse, gave up on their Satellite News venture last October, selling out to Turner Broadcasting System for $25 million. Despite all that, ABC last week plunged into the coaxial morass again with its biggest cable venture ever. The company paid $202 million for the U.S.'s most popular cable service, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, a 24-hour channel with 30 million subscribers. ABC already owned 15% of ESPN, and will buy the remainder from Texaco, which...