Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only thing my six-year-old son wanted for Christmas was a Radio Shack TRS-80. And after years of struggling, he tied his shoes only when we promised him an Atari keyboard...
...past 15 months Carter's life has centered on the book about his years in office, which he plans to call Keeping Faith. Each morning he wakes at 5, pours himself a glass of grapefruit juice and heads for his study. There, sitting in front of the keyboard of a white word processor, the ex-President works about eight hours a day. As the bright green letters appear on the screen, he speaks the words out loud. Around 7, he realizes that breakfast is near when he hears Amy practicing her violin down the hall...
Freshmen, and sophomores who faced the requirement last year, have expressed reactions to the QRR ranging from indifference to genuine anger. But they agree almost unanimously that the exercise does little to ensure that computophobes will retain any facility at the keyboard or ever return to the terminal room. The exams demand only temporary mental photocopying and a brief encounter with the machine itself--not an experience likely to yield affection for the Polymorphic Programming Language. If Harvard thinks it's important to expose students to the wonders of the computer, the school should force everyone to take a half...
...side of him is a elegant-looking woman, with flowing blonde hair. She wears a sparkling evening gown and white tennis shoes, bouncing up and down to the pounding beat. To the other side of the man is another woman who is banging away on a keyboard. Her red miniskirt and beehive hairdoo stand out. At the back of the stage are two more clean-cut-men--preppy almost, were it not for their New York intelligentsia slacks and shirts. One, head down, is slinging away on lead guitar, sending up the wall of sound that has enveloped the theatre...
...long, brown hair draped far down her back. She is operating a computer program-or software-that simulates the workings of a nuclear reactor. Today she is fine-tuning the section that governs the control rods, those regulators of the reactor's nuclear fires. Tapping away at the keyboard, Pam explains: "You have to maximize the power output without destroying the reactor." Suddenly, flashing numbers burst upon the screen. "There," says Pam, her face lighting up. "Reactor overheated. Power output low. Reactor core damaged. Meltdown!" A disaster that she has brought on intentionally, just to show how it could...