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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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A portable paging device about the size of a cigarette pack, the beeper is a mini-radio receiver that puts the person carrying it on instant call from of-ficerhome or anywhere else. Short-range protobeepers were used in hospitals in the early 1960s to summon doctors. Since then beepers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chorus of Beepers | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Voice Messages. Customers can either rent the pocket pagers ($16-$35 a month depending on the model) or buy them outright ($175-$400). Some models come equipped with earphones, flashing lights or vibrators for use in high-noise areas. Doctors and lawyers often choose Motorola's Pageboy II with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Chorus of Beepers | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Reincarnation on Central Park West? It sounds like material left over from an old Nichols and May routine. An implacably amorous computer? It sounds as if the Disney organization decided to adapt an idea Stanley Kubrick had discarded as unworthy of him. Yet allegedly responsible adults, accountable to the stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Reincarnation: The Audrey Seed | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

This would undoubtedly be a better account of the Boston Marathon if there were space to tell the story of Bob Hall, who conquered the difficult course on a wheelchair in a time of about 2:40. Or that of Will Rodgers, a former winner and Boston's beloved All...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Two Marathon Stories | 4/19/1977 | See Source »

The Texas A. & M. specialists have located about 300,000 documents, only 15% of which had been catalogued after the war. Dow Chemical, Union Carbide and Diamond Shamrock will help underwrite the massive job of collating all the information and feeding it into a computer at the federally run Oak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: Recycling Nazi Secrets | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

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