Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three students lean over the center table where Nat Howard is writing his AM 110 assignment. The talk turns to Star Trek, the computer game often played to relieve the drudgery of long homework assignments. "Star Trek is pure escape," says one envious thesis writer.
This game of war, affectionately known to the computer at Star Drek, is waged between a computer wonk and the unfriendly Klingon and Romulan spaceships, which appear on the terminal screen. The thrill of firing phasers, speeding through space at warp 5, annihilating the enemy with torpedos released by pressing...
Each student is allocated a certain money quota of "connect time"--when he's logged in at the terminal, and more expensive "computer time"--when the computer is actually solving his problem. "I was worried to go over my budget for my thesis," one student says, "Then I saw all...
A woman marches in and accosts a student leaning against the table, staring at the blackboard where half-erased math problems and messages are scrawled. She asks to use his terminal for a short while. She has finished her first computer program and is eager to see if it works...
"I'm finished!" says one beaming student, waving twenty pages of computer print out in the air. "Shoot, I think I'm going to get out of here, maybe into that movie over there."