Word: grid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first company to build a clipboard computer, but earlier versions were limited in their uses. Grid, a division of Tandy, has sold 10,000 of its $2,370 GridPads to people who have to spend a lot of time filling out forms, including pharmacists, pollsters and bridge inspectors. Sony and Canon have been selling similar devices in Japan, and virtually every & other computer manufacturer is working...
...based computers. Rather than make the machines itself, the company hopes it can license its elegant control software, called PenPoint, to computer manufacturers who would in turn pay Go royalties. Among the firms that are expected to begin shipping PenPoint models within the next six to 12 months: Grid, NCR and the biggest computer maker of them all, IBM. The machines will probably sell for $4,000 to $6,000. Microsoft -- the software giant based in Redmond, Wash., that has supplied IBM's operating systems in the past -- has ideas of its own, however. It is set to introduce...
...reflection reduced to one bulging eye and blond Veronica Lake tresses. But Pousette-Dart was a stiff, poor draftsman, with the deficiencies of the self-taught, and this makes the early totemic paintings, with their biomorphic shapes playing hide-and-seek in the rigid scaffolding of a Cubist grid, look somewhat less than fully achieved...
...during the last 25 years." His influence was wide. Those cakes of thick pigment, those creamy, generous brushstrokes inlaid like rough marquetry over their contrasting grounds, struck many artists in the 1950s as a viable alternative to the linear, quasi-geometric abstraction that had grown out of the cubist grid. But though De Stael had a healthy effect on two or three major artists, especially the English painter Frank Auerbach, most of his imitators were insipid, and their weakness reflected on De Stael's own reputation...