Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hewlett wound up supplying Jobs with parts for a frequency counter, a device that measures the speed of electronic impulses. This introduced Jobs to the concept of timing, critical for understanding a computer, and furnished him with a cornerstone that, according to Wozniak, he never bothered to build on. Says Wozniak: "I doubt Steve was careful down to the last detail, which is really the key to high-level engineering." Shape, not subtlety, was more in Jobs' line, foreshadowing what one Apple manager calls the "technical ignorance he's not willing to admit." It was the practical applications of technology...
...takes just 40 screws and 68 minutes to assemble an Osborne 1. Says a company executive: "We've out-Japanesed the Japanese." In fact, the Osborne is so successful that it is spawning imitators, some perhaps better than the original. Ever the optimist, Osborne is preparing to counter with a new portable. Asked about one possible rival from a new Texas firm, he replies, "We'll kill that machine dead, dead, dead...
...wants, the House normally gives it-and sometimes more. But last week, by a surprisingly decisive margin of 69 votes, the House refused to give Ronald Reagan something the President had insisted, with all the persuasive flourishes of his best prime-time TV oratory, that America urgently needs to counter the Soviet Union's threatening nuclear arsenal: money to begin production of the 96-ton MX missile with its ten-warhead punch...
...development of the MX and its basing system, presumably something other than Dense Pack. The House did not reject Reagan's basic argument that the 1,000 Minutemen are vulnerable to a first strike from improved Soviet ICBMs and that the MX is needed, in some form, to counter that threat. But in effect the House was saying no to Dense Pack when it killed the production funds...
Neither the technique nor the success have come easily for Quintero. He only began throwing the weight and its outdoor counter part, the hammer, his sophomore year. He joined the track team as a javelin thrower, but found little success in that event...