Word: disks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...content of the first suspect disk turned out to be a "diary" containing page after page of sex-related material that included male first names, general locations and descriptions of sex acts written in graphic detail. If the accounts on the disks prove to be fact, not fantasy, police will use them to bring additional charges against their suspect. Leppik, meanwhile, is trying to keep things in perspective and "not get a swelled head." Says he: "I'm still doing the dishes and making...
...like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some for himself. The whole place suits...
COMFORT AND JOY. Sitcom becomes surrealism in this tale of a Scottish disk jockey's miserable Merry Christmas. The best film yet from cockeyed visionary Bill Forsyth...
...least not right away. IBM, seeking perhaps to protect sales of its highly popular PC and XT business computers, deliberately limited the power of the PCjr. The company made it difficult for users to add extra memory or disk drives, and it chose a circuitry design that made the computer run slower than comparable machines. The most criticized feature was the Chiclets-style keyboard that was unsuitable for heavy-duty typing and thus reduced the appeal of the machine for word processing or extensive record keeping...
...handle. For example, plugging in more than one memory-expansion module or peripheral device calls for a tangle of cables and bricklike power-supply boxes, each of which costs extra. In addition, the machine in its various configurations requires three different versions of IBM's somewhat intimidating disk operating system...