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...cheapest hand-held machines, like Radio Shack's new TRS-80 PC2 ($280), are likely to be the most popular, despite drawbacks. Their tiny, one-line display screens are better for solving engineering problems or showing long strings of numbers than for serious writing or business programming, and their calculator-type keyboards are much harder to master than those of larger desktop computers. But they remind some users of the proverbial dog walking on its hind legs: what is surprising is not how well they work, but that they work at all. One U.S. insurance company is considering buying...
DIED. Robert Gottschalk, 64, founder-president of Panavision, Inc., who invented light, noiseless, hand-held cameras and lenses that won him an Academy Award and made "Camera by Panavision" one of the screen's most familiar credits; of stab wounds; in Los Angeles. Police arrested a male houseguest with whom, they say, he had had a "falling...
American toysellers spent most of the Christmas season last year in the doldrums. Profits plunged when sales of highly touted hand-held electronic games, which had been a smash success the year before, fizzled. But Toys R Us, the largest retailer of playthings in the nation, which monitors its check-out counters with computerized cash registers, by fall had spotted the public's disenchantment with such items and quickly switched marketing tactics. The company cleared the games from its shelves by slashing prices, then stocked up on the better-selling items, including Barbie dolls, Tonka trucks and footballs...
...Hand-held electronic toys--the darling of the industry for two straight Christmases--seem to be in decline this season. The batteries were gone on all the display models at Jordan Marsh, but most of the children wandering around didn't seem to mind...
...traffic, what little is still operating, moves in and out of Kabul airport normally, but the Soviet Ilyushin and Antonov military transports that use the same runway bank sharply after takeoff and climb to a safe altitude in a tight spiral. There is rising concern that rebels armed with hand-held SA-7 antiaircraft missiles may be hiding in the hills around the capital...