Word: disces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preserve their creativity, the students can readily store their programs on magnetic tape or on a small, 45 r.p.m.-size plastic record called a floppy disc-which is not, as some parents believe, a new form of back injury. Then when the occasion arises for using the program again, the computer operator merely loads...
...pull it off, duplicators simply hook a couple of devices called disc drives to their microcomputers, then slip the disc containing the program they covet into one drive and a blank disc into the other. Machines can then read the contents of the programmed disc and write them onto the blank. Manufacturers, of course, have tried to prevent this, usually by scrambling the information in such a way that a straightforward reading of the disc will either generate garbage or erase the program. One way around that is a burglary tool called Locksmith. Designed to permit computer owners to make...
...eyebrow over at the patronage-happy pension board. Unfortunately for Hynes and Sinnott, however, their cases came to light after the Boston Globe uncovered another suspicious pension request. Robert Toomey Sr., 40, manager of operations for the department of public facilities, claimed that he had suffered a ruptured cervical disc in a car accident while on City business. This left him in "constant pain, unable to do any lifting or bending." His disability request: $30,240 a year. According to the Globe, he had taken out nine separate accident insurance policies shortly before his auto mishap, and the only witnesses...
...posts and missed open nets throughout the game, very nearly tied it up just 10 seconds later. But winger Dan Potter fanned on a shot less than a yard from an open corner of the goal, and the Huskies sent the puck downice, where winger Gerry Cowie took the disc and newed things up with an empty-netter...
DIED. Murray Kaufman, 60, alias "Murray the K," zany, hip-talking disc jockey whose comic hysteria on New York City rock 'n' roll radio programs made him a cult figure for millions of teen-agers during the 1960s; of cancer; in Los Angeles. One of the first and best of rock's high-pitched, jabbering deejays, Kaufman punctuated his broadcasts with shrieks, howls and a miscellany of sounds: trains crashing, cavalry charging, crazed laughter. He helped promote the Beatles during their first visit to the U.S. in 1964, and appeared in the rock quartet's second...