Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focus. It sustains. Outside my work, playing a supporting role, it is still music which gives me joy. I have no records for I have no stereo. I have never even seen a compact disc player...
...first glance, the union of the personal computer and the compact disc would seem to be a perfect match. The same CD that holds an hour of Mendelssohn or Madonna can be used to store more information than a thousand floppy disks. But the coupling of the two technologies has been stalled by a kind of Catch-22. Computer owners will not buy the special disk drives required to play CDs on their desktop machines until they know there is something worth playing. And software publishers are reluctant to develop new CD programs until there are enough disk drives...
...union of the computer and the compact disc puts the world on a silver platter. -- "Viruses" give the software industry a chill...
...council's three-hour moonlight cruise on the Harbor will feature dancing, a disc jockey, two cash bars. and a third deck that Social Committee Co-Chairman Jonathan S. Leff '90 described as a "romantic area...
Important Japanese innovations cover a broad range of industries. A computerized automobile carburetor manufactured and patented by Nissan Motor was cited about 50 times in subsequent applications. Computer Horizons considers 50 follow-up citations an extraordinarily high number. Canon's patent for the optical disc, one form of which is the compact disc sold in record stores, was mentioned 56 times. An antibiotic developed by Takeda Chemical Industries earned more than 100 subsequent citations. Among recent advances, Hitachi has patented various processes for a higher-resolution TV, called IDTV, which produces a much sharper picture than conventional color TV. Some...