Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Israelis not only have restored some of the water collection systems left by the ancient Nabateans in the Negev desert, but are letting the runoff nourish flourishing orchards of almond and pistachio trees. Another strategy for making the Negev bloom: drip irrigation systems that feed small amounts of water...
...computer to keep a log of the people he talks to on his radio and to translate Morse code into a typewritten message. Boston Pediatrician Lawrence Reiner uses his machine to relax by playing TV games with his children. Robert Phillips, president of Gimix Inc., a Chicago firm that computerizes entire households, has installed terminals in every room of his Chicago apartment. He uses them to dim and brighten his lights, tune his stereo, turn his television on and off, even to open and close his drapes...
...Belmont, Mass., apartment: "I tried doing my checkbook on it. It's a lot faster by hand." And even though prices have dropped, microcomputers remain complicated devices that require long hours of study to use properly. When Robert Phillips let his sister give a party in his computerized Chicago apartment, he dutifully left a long list of instructions. Not long enough. Someone accidentally hit a button that killed all the power, reducing the puzzled guests to carrying candles. "The hard part," says Phillips, "is making the computer compatible with people...
The new economics of gas sales has spurred competition for the big companies from regional chains that go by such names as Raceway (Alabama), Maverick (Colorado) and Fas Gas (Texas). What gasoline men describe as "the Taj Mahal of the self-service" is also an independent: a place in Las...
Throughout the six-day convention, competition for ten coveted rosettes was, ipso facto, difficult indeed. Contenders in the Pentathlon had to work against the clock in proving to a computer their mastery of mythology, grammar and history. Nearby classrooms resounded to the ring of Ovid and Livy as the oratorical...