Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exploit that market, software houses are busy developing adult-oriented games that are more sophisticated than Pac-Man and Donkey Kong and can be played as easily on a keyboard as with a joy stick. Programmer Crawford's current best seller, for example, is Mindscape's Balance of Power ($49.95), a foreign policy simulation in which the player tries to check Soviet expansion in as many as 62 different countries without starting a nuclear war. In Starflight by Electronic Arts ($49.95), players explore some 270 star systems and 800 simulated planets, zapping aliens all the way. Infocom has even come...
...Cotton's farewell party on the grounds of the Amador Officer's Club. There are more than 250 guests, nearly all of them middle-aged and conspicuously American, wearing colorful shirts and dresses, Hawaiian leis draped around their necks. Azcarraga's pudgy fingers are surprisingly agile on the organ keyboard as he pumps out the Scottish farewell. But then they should be. Although he is over 70, he plays this tune quite often. Most of the guests get to hear it pretty frequently too. "You say goodbye a lot around here these days," says Dick Morgan, who is being promoted...
...first glance, the image that flashed on the 19-inch computer screen looked like an ordinary road map. Then John Richardson, acting manager of the Federal Aviation Administration's Central Flow Control Facility in Washington, began tapping at his keyboard. With one stroke he zoomed in to an aerial view of the New York metropolitan area, divided not along town or county lines but along sectors of airspace. With another keystroke he eliminated hundreds of tiny black dots showing the location of low-flying aircraft and private jets. What remained on the screen were larger, winged symbols representing commercial airliners...
...West Lafayette, Ind., a Purdue University biologist who until recently was building models of viruses by laboriously fastening together hundreds of brass fittings taps away at a computer keyboard. When he is done, he has created on the screen an image of rhinovirus 14 (one of some 113 varieties responsible for the common cold) that can be turned and viewed in three dimensions. Rhinovirus 14 thus becomes the first animal virus of any kind to have its full portrait drawn...
...quits, splitting off into various factions and solo projects. In late 1986, the band resurfaced, with all four original members, releasing the "Snakedrill" 12-inch. It appeared that, after a lengthy lay-over, the band was ready to pick up where they left off, with a heady mixture of keyboard-based art rock, submerged in swirling guitars and avant-garde postures. And the road to reunion was sweetened by the band members' floundering solo careers and a guaranteed record deal. The generation of admirers that the band weaned would surely come out in force with their re-emergence...