Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A middleaged, overweight free-lance journalist who plays the jew's-harp is hardly the prototype of a revolutionary. But Harvey Matusow, 46, has full credentials for conspiracy. An American Communist in the 1940s who turned FBI informer and spent five years in prison for perjury (after admitting that...
By inventing the transistor 21 years ago, researchers at the Bell Telephone Laboratories paved the way for most of the sophisticated electronic marvels of the 1960s-most notably the miniaturized, high-speed computer. Now they may have done it again. A versatile new device conjured up by the wizards at...
Therein lies the secret of their usefulness. Because their presence or absence at specific points in the wafer can be precisely controlled and electronically detected, bubbles can be used to carry coded messages in the on-off binary language of the computer, store reams of data and perform myriad mathematical...
Thousands of Bits. Not only do the crystals have the advantage of simplicity of operation, but they could also be extremely compact computer components. In a recent demonstration at their Murray Hill, N.J., headquarters, the Bell scientists showed that a thin crystal, only one-tenth of an inch square, could...
Computer ticketing is still in its infancy, but its convenience is beginning to catch the public's fancy. After 15 months of operations, Ticketron, the bigger of the two systems, has terminals in more than 300 locations from coast to coast. It offers seats to a wide variety of...