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...cavernous Las Vegas Convention Center a month ago, more than 1,000 computer companies large and small were showing off their wares, their floppy discs and disc drives, joy sticks and modems, to a mob of some 50,000 buyers, middlemen and assorted technology buffs. Look! Here is Hewlett-Packard's HP9000, on which you can sketch a new airplane, say, and immediately see the results in 3-D through holograph imaging; here is how the Votan can answer and act on a telephone call in the middle of the night from a salesman on the other side...
...course, once the author has written his program, he usually has to find a software company willing to mass-produce and market it. The product is most often sold in the form of a floppy plastic disc the size of a 45-r.p.m. record on which the inventor's program is inscribed. All programs, however they are packaged and sold, are known as software. Programs written by independents have become the engine that drives the boom in personal computers. Unit sales of the $500-to-$12,000 desktop devices for office or home are expected to reach 1.1 million...
Mitchell Kapor, a onetime Hartford, Conn., disc jockey and instructor of transcendental meditation, also started small. Kapor, 32, ran up $30,000 in debts while writing two business programs on his own time. After selling the rights to the programs for $1.2 million and piling up $500,000 more in royalties, he raised $1 million in venture capital to start Lotus Development Corp. in Cambridge, Mass. Its first major product, called 1-2-3, which runs only on IBM machines, is an elaborate business program that combines management information and graphing along with financial-analysis tools...
...annually undergo operations known as laminectomies to correct this ailment. The new technique, called chemonucleolysis, may eliminate the need for up to 75% of such surgery. In the hourlong procedure, the surgeon, guided by images on a fluoroscope, inserts a 6-in. needle into the gelatinous core of the disc and injects 1 to 1.5 milliliters (about one-third of a teaspoon) of chymopapain into the disc. Within seconds, the pulpy tissue dissolves, relieving pressure on the nerves...
...cardiovascular systems. The FDA points out, however, that in the new clinical trials with more than 1,400 patients, anaphylaxis occurred in only 1% of cases, and of these just two patients died. The mortality rate of .14% for chymopapain is about the same as that for lumbar disc surgery. Still, surgeons are cautioning patients that chymopapain is a last-ditch therapy short of surgery. In 95% of the millions of patients with herniated discs, the pain can be relieved by bed rest and aspirin...