Word: dials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ARIGATO by Richard Condon. 312 pages. Dial Press...
When students register at Dartmouth, they receive ID numbers and code words to enable them to dial into the college's computer from any of the 200 terminals on the campus. By the time they leave, about 90% of Dartmouth's 3,455 undergraduates will know how to operate and even program a computer. Some never progress beyond playing simulated games of football or chess, but more than half take courses on how to use computers in scientific and behavioral research. "I want the computer to become as familiar as the library," says Kemeny...
After half an hour in a grounded plane with no air conditioning, the irate captain finally convinced the airport controllers that there was no skyjacker. Only then did the cause of all the fuss come out. The flight engineer had dialed the emergency signal accidentally. On the assumption that it had not transmitted in the brief moment before he corrected it, he spun the radio dial and decided not to inform his captain...
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