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...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...
...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...
...recent addition to the station is the "Compact Disk Monitor" program, focusing on new high-quality laser disks...
TAIWAN. The thriving exporters of Taiwan are selling increasingly sophisticated products. Last year, for the first time, exports of electronics goods ($4.85 billion) surpassed shipments of textiles ($4.6 billion). The biggest surge has come in sales of computer accessories, including terminals, disk drives and printers. Spurred by an 18% increase in exports this year, Taiwan's overall growth rate is about 9%. In 1985, Chen predicted, the pace of expansion will be about...