Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When French Dance Student Isabelle Michalowski, 17, wants to find a local nightspot that is still open during the summer vacation, she lets her fingers do the walking-not through the Yellow Pages, but across the keyboard of a computer console. Using the small video terminal that has been provided by the state-owned French telephone company, she punches a few keys and then taps out the words DISCOS-RENNES. Seconds later the names, addresses and telephone numbers flash on the screen. She then hits another button and an illustrated advertisement appears on the screen. It reads...
Fortunately, Jo has been able to adjust to her husband's obsession. While Todd fiddles with the keyboard, she goes out with friends, gabs on the phone or just immerses herself in a bubble bath. Says she: "It gives me more time to do what I want to do. I'm glad to have the independence." But their case may be a happy exception. Throughout the nation, thousands of couples who have survived Monday Night Football, jogging and the ERA debate are facing a trickier challenge. The computer that they were told would bring the family closer together...
...summer concert tour and you get a brilliant initiation into one of the most enduring American musical traditions: rhythm and blues, New Orleans-style. Mac Rebennack-known since 1963 for his professional appearances as Dr. John-has been a first-class musician, a cabin-class superstar and a keyboard boogie man, keeping the tradition of his native city alive and treating it proud. He is also a garrulous archivist of local musical lore and a dexterous spinner of tales. In his sunny town house in Manhattan's Chelsea district, the Doctor, 40, is the man to consult on matters...
...system, says its unflappable designer, Tom Nicholson of the New York City exhibition firm of Ramirez and Woods, "personalizes" information. Determined to avoid an intimidating computer keyboard, he employed a "user-friendly," touch-sensitive screen. Pressure on the screen tells the computer to retrieve the information stored on the videodisc corresponding to the word or symbol touched. Although the computer makes the system truly responsive, what makes its applications so exciting is the versatility of the videodisc. And you thought the disc was the Edsel of video technology...
...talk to my administrative assistant, yes, I'd use it," he explains. "But it's a lot of work to punch in questions. My assistant is easier to work with." Says Kerry Orr of computer maker Control Data Corp. in Atlanta: "Most executives are intimidated by a keyboard." While computer firms insist that even the most ham-handed executive can be taught to operate a computer in a matter of hours, executive resistance remains high. Orr observes, "They normally are not honest enough to say, 'I don't want to use it because...