Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of Michigan, edited the stories on a video display terminal, part of our elaborate copy processing system. In 1967, TIME was one of the first magazines to set copy with a computer. Today our improved system also handles the other Time Inc. publications (FORTUNE, MONEY, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), cutting processing time by 75% or more compared to older methods...
...only is Time Inc.'s computer nimble, it is enterprising...
Using an electronic "dictionary," which it scans in a fraction of a second, the system can figure out how to break almost any word up to and including the 14-syllable supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It can set type in any one of Time Inc.'s own 127 fonts, tailor-fit copy to a layout, and draw in boxes and assorted lines. Finally, at the rate of a page every 15 seconds, the system can whisk the whole magazine to our printers in Chicago via telephone wires. TIME will soon acquire yet another computerized device-a Videocomp machine that will enable...
...computer's benign influence extends to the handicapped. The tremendously arduous process of turning print into Braille for the blind has become a relatively simple mechanical routine. In April, Telesensory Systems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., will start marketing a game center consisting of eight games for the unsighted; oscillating tones will replace the screen markings for contests like paddle ball; and synthesized speech will be used for other games such as tic-tac-toe, blackjack and skeet shoot...
...market can absorb is real. By 1985, according to C. Lester Hogan, vice chairman of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., it will be feasible to build a pocket calculator "that will be more powerful than, and almost as fast as," the $9 million Cray-1, built by Cray Research Inc. in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and recognized as the mightiest computer in the world...