Word: digit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telephone used to be a friend, something you said hello to and took for granted. But since the advent of direct dialing and seven-digit phone numbers plus area code, the square black box, which no longer is necessarily either square or black, has inspired admiration in some, irritation in others. Both the admiration and the irritation make little difference, because increasingly there is no real person to talk to anyway...
Computers on Earth digested the pictures, digit by digit, and "developed" them by translating the numerical values into the correct shades of light to be projected onto a photographic film. All told, Mariner was programmed to take and transmit up to 21 such pictures of Mars. But excited Mariner engineers could not wait for the first transmission to be completed before they sneaked their first look. They processed the half picture received by the Johannesburg and Madrid tracking stations even before Goldstone, which had taken over tracking when the others lost contact, could supply its half of the tape...
...Digit for Dollars...
...TIME'S transmitter added a digit. Will Millionaire Blakeley, 44, settle for $10 million...
...defendant was the one corporate entity that many Americans would give their digit-dial Princesses to see haled into court: the telephone company. On behalf of Client Garrett, Attorney Garrett was suing the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. The specifics were a little vague, but they amounted to a charge of continued harassment over a period of four years. Attorney Garrett had only one witness-himself...