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Word: laptopping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lankard took his fight all the way to Washington, where lawmakers would oversee the land deals. He became a familiar sight in the Capitol with his battered leather backpack, laptop computer and a small, smooth stone from his beloved Copper River that he always carried. The chief of the Eyak tribe renamed him Jamachakih. Translation: "little bird that screams really loud and won't shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: DUNE LANKARD: Scream Of The Little Bird | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

COMPUTER The revolution started in 1951 with UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), the first commercial computer in the U.S. Built in 1951 for Remington-Rand Corp., it contained 5,000 vacuum tubes. Today's chip-powered machines, sold by the millions, pack more power than UNIVAC into a laptop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...students were staying with Weld's daughter, Mary B. Weld, a Yale sophomore. Among the stolen items was a laptop computer which Weld's wife, Susan Roosevelt Weld '70, estimated to be worth...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Burglars Strike Weld Home Before The Game | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

...fantasy was simple: I'd be sprawled out on the couch in the den Tuesday night, watching my man Bernie Shaw do the Election Day returns. At the same time, tapping at my laptop, I'd be editing dispatches e-mailed from TIME Daily's daring political correspondents to my desktop computer and beamed seamlessly right into my lap over my new, personal, wireless home network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Hookups | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...HomeFree Wireless, since I know and use Diamond's excellent graphics card. The $199 DeskTop Pack connects two computers by radio waves; you can add as many as 15 others for $100 each. And for an additional $129, you can buy a HomeFree PCMCIA card and hook in a laptop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Hookups | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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