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Word: lexon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its black-tinted panels and pulsing red indicator lights, it bears a striking resemblance to Joshua, the fictional computer that plays chess and thermonuclear war in the movie WarGames. But this is the real thing. Inside a 5-ft. Lexon plastic cube is a powerful new computer called the Connection Machine, which not only looks different from most mainframes, it is different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Letting 1,000 Flowers Bloom | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

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