Word: cupertino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These versatile machines are "personal computers" made by Apple Computer of Cupertino, Calif. In just four years, Apple has captured about 20% of the growing market for these relatively cheap (about $1,000) machines, which are designed primarily for small business and professional users. Sales in this new and rapidly evolving market will hit $300 million in 1979 and are growing at 45% annually...
...winner's circle when Karen Hawkins, 22, of St. Louis took a silver in the 200-meter dash. Then the U.S. collected four gold medals in Spartakiad's first five days: Wardell Gilbreath, 25, of Amarillo, Texas, in the 200-meter dash; John Powell, 32, of Cupertino, Calif., in the discus; Henry Marsh, 25, of Eugene, Ore., in the 3,000-meter steeplechase; and Vinson, 27, of Chicago, in the 400 meter...
...slide rule" calculators (which include trigonometric and exponential functions), just as they would have used their own traditional slide rules a few years ago. A few school systems, however, have begun to supply and use calculators in an organized way. Three junior highs and one elementary school in Cupertino, Calif., have been using 15 calculators as standard equipment in math classes since September. In Math Teacher Barbara Good-son's classes, pupils share the devices on regular assignments during one or two periods a week. Says Goodson: "Kids who weren't all that eager to come to math...
Wrong Answers. The Cupertino program is part of an experiment designed by Educational Consultant Wallace Judd, which involves 1,400 students in 14 junior highs in four cities from Harrisburg, Pa., to San Francisco. Judd stresses that students in the program must be able to formulate a problem before they go to work on a calculator. "A calculator won't give you a wrong answer to a computation," says Judd, but it will give you a wrong answer if the problem is set up incorrectly...
...Savings. Indeed, school and police authorities blamed the darkness, in part, for a number of motor-vehicle accidents involving children, including a 16-year-old boy in suburban Chicago, run over en route to school. Californians were chilled by the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cupertino, who was attacked as she crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear light...