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The cause of that fuss was the disappearance of two projection mask aligners (price: $250,000 each) made by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. The automobile-size machines, called Micralign 200s by Perkin-Elmer, are used in the manufacture of microcircuitry for everything from digital watches to missile guidance...
Reagan also stopped at the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer-keyboard assembling plant and called for a greater partnership between business and government, although the president has attempted to cut back money to support such alliances.
About 2500 demonstrators, including a few from Harvard, gathered outside the Digital plant to protest against a variety of the president's policies, from Latin America to student aid cuts.
The first electronic digital computer in the U.S., unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946, was a collection of 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and 6,000 switches, and occupied the space of a two-car garage. Yet ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and...
Only growing small businesses and big corporate clients are likely to go after these computers, known in the trade as "professional work stations" and designed to hang at the branches of a network of similar machines. Price tags range as high as $10,000; Altos, Corvus, Control Data, Cromemco, Digital...