Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embarrassed by the shortcomings of the PCjr. Introduced last November to much fanfare as a home computer for family use, it received only lukewarm reviews, and sales have been weak. Last month IBM decided to try again and announced a more powerful, improved version. It replaced a much criticized keyboard with a standard typewriter-style one and added more memory so that the PCjr can run business programs like Lotus 1-2-3. The fully equipped PCjr now sells for $999, in contrast to the original...
...marvelously efficient work station. The lamp and a small round side table for a telephone, ashtray, vase, drink or whatnot are supported by a freestanding column. Another column supports a television set or computer monitor, as well as a cantilevered, tilting table that can hold a computer keyboard or serve as a writing surface. The columns can be placed anywhere. The computer disc drive goes in an upright console next to the chair. Diffrient maintains that "the energy you save by reducing the strain of holding yourself up and worrying about whether your back aches or your arms hurt...
...software and asking satisfied users for contributions. John MacEvoy, a part-time programmer from Germantown, Md., seeks no payment for the personal-finance program he wrote, but he does make one request of those who use it. Instead of paying him, MacEvoy says, they should leave the computer keyboard for a while and take their long-suffering spouses out to dinner...
Computer Capers: As IBM computer keyboard and two computer printer ribbon cartridges were reported stolen from the east terminal room at the Science Center between last Friday and Tuesday...
When Michael Wise sits down at a keyboard, he never knows when he will get up. The plump, bearded computer programmer often works twelve, 24, even 36 hours without a break, filling a green screen at the San Rafael, Calif., offices of Broderbund Software with words and numbers that only he and his computer completely understand. Since December, Wise has written 40,000 lines of instructions for a video game he calls Captain Goodnight, after the old Captain Midnight radio series. By the time the program is ready for release this summer, it will have grown to 50,000 lines...