Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credited author, Charles White, is a BBC disc jockey who goes by the name of Dr. Rock and has the good sense to go off-mike when the major talent is in the room. In only a little more time than it might take to recite the immortal refrain from Tutti Frutti (for the record, that's "Awop-Bop-a-Loo-Mop/ Alop-Bam-Boom"), the reader, reeling, will have plunged through Richard's accounts of childhood pranks (he defecated in a box and presented the result, gift wrapped, to old Miz Ola down on Macon...
...telephone, ashtray, vase, drink or whatnot are supported by a freestanding column. Another column supports a television set or computer monitor, as well as a cantilevered, tilting table that can hold a computer keyboard or serve as a writing surface. The columns can be placed anywhere. The computer disc drive goes in an upright console next to the chair. Diffrient maintains that "the energy you save by reducing the strain of holding yourself up and worrying about whether your back aches or your arms hurt is directly converted to the work at hand...
Spectators love the spills and thrills, but as one young fan said during the pre-race parade of Miss Toyota. Miss Yamaha and local disc jockey Charles Laquidera hamming it up. "Christ, I just wish they'd get on with it. Motocross fans image is almost as bad as that of the racers themselves Promoters insist it is as inaccurate...
Face facts: compact discs, or CDs as they are known, have arrived. No longer mere technological curiosities, the tiny (4.7 in. in diameter) shiny records have rapidly proliferated since being introduced to the U.S. market little more than a year ago. Today the majority of new classical releases are issued as LPs, cassettes and CDs. At $15 to $21 apiece, not to mention the $550 to $800 or so required for a compact-disc player, an investment in CDs is considerable. But the outlay is well worth...
...project is now fully computerized and, according to Systems Analyst Richard J. Kelly '85, "probably has the largest disc space on the Harvard [computer] system...