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...device refused to work. "O.K., the jaws didn't fire that time," Nelson radioed after his first attempt. Twice more, with increasing force, he banged against Max without results (TPAD has no manual trigger for an astronaut to operate). Nelson's efforts turned the gentle wobble of Solar Max, whose inoperable attitude controls had been shut down as a precaution by its ground controllers, into a precarious, crazy cartwheel. Radioed a frustrated Crippen: "Is there any way that you think you can do it with your hands...
...identify them." Of course they lead you by the hand but having to figure out what to do and how to do it was a real challenge. It meant something to be able to think on my own and not just follow the directions in a lab manual...
Fortunately for Harvard's term bill office, most of the manual work is done by Bay Bank Harvard Trust Co. When students or parents mail in money for the new academic season, the checks go directly to a strongbox at the bank and are credited to Harvard's account...
...machine on which Apple is now placing such high hopes started out as a minor project. Mac, as the computer is affectionately called within the firm, began life in 1979, when Jef Raskin, the writer of the first comprehensive manual for the Apple II, was asked to build a computer that would sell for less than $500 and work through a television set. He built a cardboard mock-up and recommended that Apple produce a battery-powered portable home computer that might cost about $1,000. Raskin code-named the machine Macintosh, misspelling the name of his favorite kind...
...Computer graphics mimics the manual methods and speeds up the process," he says The computer stores the model of the physical object itself and then can reconstruct any drawing from its won model...