Word: goldens
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Throughout 1982, TIME chronicled the computer revolution, both by devoting three covers to it and by introducing in April a new Computers section. Says Senior Writer Frederic Golden, who contributed to this week's cover stories-Computers were once regarded as distant, ominous abstractions, like Big Brother. In 1982 they truly became personalized brought down to scale, so that people could hold, prod and play with them." Golden often writes his own stories at home on a TRS-80 Model III; another cover contributor, Computers Section Writer Philip Faflick, works on an Apple II Plus in his apartment. Indeed...
...that computers have achieved, they can still prove frustrating. In April, Golden's machine inexplicably swal lowed the cover story he had written on the Computer Generation. San Francisco Correspondent Michael Moritz, part of a special reporting team that included New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler and Chicago Correspondent J. Madeleine Nash briefly lost touch with New York when his telephone computer link malfunctioned. Says Contributor Jay Cocks who anxiously awaited Moritz's report: "They told me that his computer was down. I envisioned an old hippie having a fit of depression." Meanwhile, Senior Writer Otto Friedrich resolutely...
Brown has spent about $1,500 on software, all bound in vinyl notebooks along a wall of his home in Golden Valley, Minn., but Sean still does a lot of programming on his own. He likes to demonstrate one that he designed to teach French. "Vive la France!" it says, and then starts beeping the first notes of La Marseillaise. His mother Reatha uses the computer to help her manage a gourmet cookware store, and even Sister Terri, who originally cast the family's lone vote against the computer, uses it to store her high school class notes. Says Brown...
Nixon is quick to add that he has no use for "false hopes" and "sentimentality" toward the U.S.S.R. "You can't apply the golden rule of the Bible to the Soviets," he says. "The golden rule of Soviet-American relations should be 'Do unto others as they do unto you.' They can't go around the world seeking advantages against us and not expect us to respond. They can't acquire a monopoly in the most threatening sort of missiles, first-strike weapons, without expecting us to build...
...unfamiliar kind of quake has shaken California: recession. Sometimes considered immune to economic woes, the nation's most populous state suffered an 11.2% unemployment rate in October, close to half a point higher than the national average in November. In 1978 the Golden State sunned itself in the warmth of a $3.7 billion state budget surplus, but now it is projected to be more than $ 1 billion in the red before the fiscal year ends on June 30. Last month California had to take out $400 million in bank loans just to pay ongoing bills, and has ceased selling...