Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Reatha Brown has been lobbying for a new carpet, but she is becoming resigned to the prospect that the family will acquire a new hard-disc drive instead. "The video-assette recorder," she sighs, pointing across the room, "that was my other carpet." Replies her husband, setting forth an argument that is likely to be replayed in millions of households in the years just ahead: "We make money with the computer, but all we can do with a new carpet is walk on it. Somebody once said there were five reasons to spend money: on necessities, on investments, on self...
...family's 2,800-acre pig farm near De Kalb, 111. Outside, the winter's first snowflakes have dusted the low-slung roofs of the six red-and-white barns and the brown fields specked with corn stubble. Inside the two-room office building, Johnson slips a disc into his computer and types "D" (for dial) and a telephone number. He is immediately connected to the Illinois farm bureau's newly computerized AgriVisor service. It not only gives him weather conditions to the west and the latest hog prices on the Chicago commodities exchange, but also offers advice. Should farmers...
...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...