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Light is about to assume tremendous importance as a data-storage tool. The most visible example of that capacity is the audio compact disc, introduced commercially in 1983. More than 50 million CDs and 1.8 million players will be sold this year, generating total revenues of more than $1 billion...
Although pagers can provide tone or voice messages, many drug merchants prefer the digital version that displays a caller's return telephone number. They are also partial to pagers that vibrate silently rather than giving off an audible signal. Dealers sometimes use fronts to sign with a paging service to...
Police use beepers too, and they sometimes provide unexpected leads. When an unfamiliar number mysteriously appeared on Miami Police Detective Juan Garcia's digital pager, he dialed it and received an order for 35 lbs. of marijuana. Garcia promised to deliver the goods, went to the designated meeting place and...
But new developments may also drastically change the cassette market. Manufacturers may soon introduce a digital cassette tape which would utilize technology similar to a compact disc. Introduction of the new tapes--which fit inside a different size tape player, of course--would further complicate students' choices of music players...
Watertown resident Chris Heller praised "theoracle," an electronic sculpture featuringcolumns, a strobe light and a LED digital display."It's a little bizarre, but I like it," she said.