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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The American exodus generated a number of implausible episodes of confusion and enterprise. One of the most unlikely involved William Gaylord and Paul Chiapparoni, employees of Electronic Data Systems, Inc., a Dallas-based computer company headed by a flamboyant patriot-chairman, H. Ross Perot. Arrested just before New Year'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Now, Another Power Struggle | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

The familiar ring is giving way to the bleep, the buzz and the flash. All are part of the sound-and-light show emanating from the versatile new computer phones that are fast becoming an integral part of the increasingly automated, modern office landscape. The bookkeepers are happy because the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phonomania and Future Talk | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Business Exchanges (PBXs) or Computerized Business Exchanges (CBXs). Though the computer phones look much like their pushbutton predecessors, matchbook-size integrated circuits have now replaced the mechanical moving parts, including bells, springs and gears, that made the old ones so heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phonomania and Future Talk | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Once mastered, the computer phones can perform a variety of functions at the touch of a button or two. These jobs include: transferring a call to another extension, automatically placing a call at a set time, notifying the user when a previously dialed busy line becomes free, intercepting calls going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phonomania and Future Talk | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

This may sound like touch-tone utopia, but in reality Murphy's Law prevails. Computer breakdowns and mistakes in programming commonly cause problems. The software bugs that may linger for many months can invoke a state of perplexed ennui in even the most sanguine of computer phone users. Danray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phonomania and Future Talk | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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