Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outside, Josh is in his 30s; inside, he is still a sheltered child, whose most bruising experience has been dueling with some electronic monster in a video game. Not recognizing the boy in the man, his frightened mother uses a butcher knife to evict him from their home in suburban...
When George Poveromo goes fishing, he doesn't fool around. Entering precise coordinates into the computerized navigation system of his 26-ft. sport- fishing boat, the Miami-based writer speeds directly toward a favorite haunt, a stretch of the Atlantic three miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale. When the computer beeps to tell him he is approaching the spot, Poveromo flicks on a bread-box-size electronic instrument, his "fish finder." By sending sound waves into the water, the machine, operating much like a radar device, probes for objects beneath the surface. The findings are recorded by a stylus that moves...
Meanwhile, the technology continues to spread. Rods and reels now sport built-in microcomputers and liquid crystal display screens. Ryobi America of Bensenville, Ill., for example, makes a $95 bait-casting reel with a computer that monitors the spool's rate of spin during casts and adjusts it as necessary...
In the control unit, the results of these calculations can be displayed as marks on paper or as blips on a computer screen. The bottom shows up as a continuous line. Fish may appear as "arches," or inverted Vs, in which the depth of the arch corresponds roughly to the...
Given the dazzling array of equipment available, some fishermen go overboard. That's My Hon, a 90-ft. fishing palace owned by Ted Sabarese, a New Jersey computer-company executive, is awash with $210,000 worth of angling gadgetry. Its cabin is a war room of screens, gauges and graphs...