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...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...
Some exhibits, for example, explain to the novice how a computer works and give him hands on experience. While one exhibit shows how the "magnetic core" memory of a computer operates, another has a voice synthesizer that can speak any sentence typed on its keyboard. Still other exhibits allow visitors to do sophisticated image processing on a picture of their own faces...
...hand to hand around the bar is a magic wand, transforming people into singing stars, romantic desperadoes, family. Betty holds the mike for Terry, who sings This Love of Mine. They gaze into each other's eyes. Tenderness seems to rise in a cloud from Margaret's keyboard. A wild, passionate embrace, something along the lines of the Tabu perfume ad, seems inevitable. "This is the only place you can come and make a fool of yourself in front of your friends," says Terry. "Of course, we've been married 31 years, and people...
...introduced in 1982. But falling prices for both flat-panel display screens and computer chips that require little energy have made lap-size computers affordable. Last year Seattle-based Microsoft and Japan's Kyocera came up with the first winner: an eight-line screen with a full-size keyboard that could be sold with built-in software for less than $800. Marketed in slightly different models by Radio Shack, NEC and Olivetti, the machine was an instant hit. Hewlett-Packard and Epson have already introduced "laptops" that boast even more advanced features, and Data General is set to launch...
...only U.S. President to have worn a Nazi uniform?" asks Chris Haney with an anarchic chortle. (Their answer: Ronald Reagan, in the 1942 movie Desperate Journey.) Then they turn back to their work, the Haneys calling out sample questions they have researched in advance, and Abbott, perched at the keyboard of a small computer, tinkering with the wording. ("I'm the only one who can chew gum and spell at the same time," he explains.) The choice of questions to be included depends entirely on their creators' reaction to them. "We trust each other's opinions," Chris...