Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue are two electronic devices, code-named Delta and Omega...
...comprehensive manual for the Apple II, was asked to build a computer that would sell for less than $500 and work through a television set. He built a cardboard mock-up and recommended that Apple produce a battery-powered portable home computer that might cost about $1,000. Raskin code-named the machine Macintosh, misspelling the name of his favorite kind of apple. Working with just two others in cramped offices near Apple's headquarters, Raskin tried to make the Macintosh as easy to use as a television set or any other household appliance...
...large corporation like IBM. Until early last year, the two computers, though superficially similar, might have been developed by separate companies. Programs written for one would not run on the other, and the mice the two used were different. Mac engineers thought Lisa's slimline disc drive, code-named Twiggy, was so clumsy that they tried to design their own. Both disc drives turned out to be too expensive and were scrapped after a development cost of about $6 million. Lisa and Mac now have a drive made by Sony...
...Jacksonville's Ribault Senior High, Principal Walter Harris recalls that in the early '70s "any day you didn't have a racial riot was a success." Harris gained control of the school by closing the campus to outsiders and instituting a dress code for both students and teachers. Most important, he raised the school's academic standards. Says Harris: "Once students found they could improve academically, they improved their self-concept and discipline...
...Smith (Tony Visone, Tim Barakett). 12:10; H. Dave Connors (Ken Code, Shayne Kukutowcz...