Word: laser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only gift was Microsoft's recent announcement that they would no longer copy-protect any non-game disks (so much for getting an illegal copy of flight simulator). Gone are the days when the Happy Hacker, after trekking many a mile to the Office of Information Technology, prepares to laser-print a paper only to remember the need for a $%?&*! Word master disk in order to read in the file...
Seeburg faces competition, though. Next month, Rowe International will introduce a model that will play both CDs and 45s. Seeburg also confronts the new video jukeboxes produced by Laser Video Music and Rowe. They play music videotapes on 25-in. color screens. Since video jukeboxes, which charge 50 cents a play, were first introduced three years ago, some 700 have been installed. They typically offer 45 different selections...
Most of us are aware that the sticking point at the Iceland summit was whether the U.S. would be allowed to deploy a space-based laser "defense" within the next 10 years. Reagan chided Soviet leader Gorbachev for his fears regarding SDI, asking, "What do the Soviets have to fear? SDI is simply an insurance policy for the United States." However, five recent studies--conducted in the U.S., West Germany and the Soviet Union--suggest otherwise...
These studies have demonstrated that a laser system powerful enough to destroy or disable missiles would also be able to destory aircraft, ships and entire cities. The amount of energy required to burn through the shell of an unprotected missile is about 120 times that required to ignite typical construction materials...
English went on to say that the offensive capabilities might be feasible long before the defensive ones. Many problems encountered by a defensive system--such as the incredibly complex software, a perfectly synchronized network of lasers and the detection of incoming missiles--would not be a problem for a laser system programmed to attack...