Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catalog room is being computerized, its 8,973 drawers and 10 million cards replaced by a central memory bank and 50 low-slung terminals. Instead of thumbing through stacks of 3-by-5 cards in search of a book, readers will now type a title or topic on a keyboard and watch the pertinent information flash onto a screen before them...
What the Dead have managed, however, are those 20 years of playing, with most of the same early-'60s rebels and LSD voyagers who started the group. The original keyboard and harmonica player, Ron McKernan, known as Pig Pen, died of hard living in the early '70s, and the present keyboardist, Brent Mydland, is the only relative newcomer. Otherwise the Dead are still Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzman on drums, Phil Lesh on bass, Bobby Weir on rhythm guitar and, first among equals, Jerry Garcia on lead guitar...
...sometimes wore fingerless gloves while he played, sang along with the music, and sat on a stool so low that he could touch the keyboard with his nose. Before a performance of the Brahms D minor piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That...
...business computers, deliberately limited the power of the PCjr. The company made it difficult for users to add extra memory or disk drives, and it chose a circuitry design that made the computer run slower than comparable machines. The most criticized feature was the Chiclets-style keyboard that was unsuitable for heavy-duty typing and thus reduced the appeal of the machine for word processing or extensive record keeping...
...step was to help beleaguered dealers by allowing them to delay payment until the end of August for computers ordered in January, six months longer than normal. Then, on the last day of July, IBM quietly introduced a flurry of new PCjr features and options, including a typewriter-style keyboard that was retroactively provided free to every registered owner...