Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the demise of the "crush theme." Winthrop will instead bring WBCN disc jockey Larry Lopert to the House, said Winthrop resident David B. Connelly...
...physical means, the way a piano does when its hammers strike the strings, the synthesizer generates tones electronically. Older analog models employed a battery of oscillators, filters and amplifiers, both to produce and to alter the color of sound. Their newer digital cousins are to analogs what compact disc record players are to the ordinary turntable; they represent each point on the sonic spectrum with a series of numbers programmed into the machine. Synthesizers can go beyond standard intervals (the white and black keys of a piano) to register quarter tones and microtones. They can repeat complicated riffs with inhuman...
Three Harvard bands--the Dance Bandits. Jane's Parents and Off the Cuff--as well as a student-run disc-jockey company. Liquid Sound, all provided tree music for the marathon...
...reflection of the will of the people." Chief Education Officer George Brizan, 41, is planning to form and lead the National Democratic Party, but its main draw is Robert Grant, a longtime lecturer in law who also happens to be "Soca Boca," one of the island's hottest disc jockeys. Winston Whyte, 39, who was released from four years of imprisonment during the invasion, hopes to drum up support in the villages. But he too concedes that "Gairy is the most organized force in the country." All three men are also overshadowed by the memory of Bishop, the popular...
...that at a large corporation like IBM. Until early last year, the two computers, though superficially similar, might have been developed by separate companies. Programs written for one would not run on the other, and the mice the two used were different. Mac engineers thought Lisa's slimline disc drive, code-named Twiggy, was so clumsy that they tried to design their own. Both disc drives turned out to be too expensive and were scrapped after a development cost of about $6 million. Lisa and Mac now have a drive made by Sony...