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...BEGINNING WAS THE BEEP -- simple, utilitarian and sufficient to alert a computer user that his machine had been turned on or that a floppy disk had failed. Then came the Macintosh, with its built-in sound chips and an onscreen control panel that enabled Mac enthusiasts to replace the beep with a boing, a clink-clank or a monkey's chirp. Finally, last spring Microsoft put sound- control software in the latest version of its Windows program, extending the power to customize a computer's noises to the 90 million owners of IBM PCs and compatible machines...
...Americans are also reclaiming lost ground in memory chips. Intel, for instance, is the major producer of "flash" memory chips, one of the fastest- growing segments of the market. Flash chips, which can retain information even when the power is turned off, could one day replace computer disk drives. Other recent innovations include "voice" chips that can store audio recordings like a telephone-answering machine...
...started singing in local pubs, but quit three years later to begin recording with two Rochdale musicians. Her payoff came in 1989 when her debut album, Affection, scored two No. 1 hits on the black charts in America. Her newest disk, Real Love, is her finest yet; the breathy come-ons of Time to Make You Mine are arrestingly seductive, and in Change she shows off the glorious arc of her upper register...
...onlysurfaced on the tracks he wrote for his ownalbums, but also on those he wrote for otherartists. Sheena Easton created a new image ofherself as a sex goddess when she sang the Princecreation "Sugar Walls." He alighted briefly onpoignancy with "Nothing Compares 2 U" for SineadO'Connor's disk I Do Not Want What I Haven'tGot...
...unrestrained egotism, Princeexpects useless sexual bravado to suffice astracks. In the verse "Close your eyes and count 2ten and when u open 'em/ I'll be standing nakedwith nothing but a smile on..." from "Blue Light,"the disk's sixth song, Prince fails to tantalizeus, instead conjuring a horrific image of himselffor anyone who has seen the cover ofLovesexy...