Word: manually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...slim volume is yet another clone of a reigning champion in the impulse book market, The Official Preppy Handbook, which appeared three years ago and has more than 1.3 million copies in print. The new manual is aimed at an affluent, surefire market: the upscale young singles and dual-career couples gathered in or near big cities. Long the darlings of the advertising world and the media, these fast-trackers are now united under a sassy name and invited to smile along at their own trendiness...
...transmission that changes from automatic to manual at the flip of a switch...
...whose irreverence and shocking explicitness challenge the pieties that protect hidden feelings. "Ill tell you your calling," screams Zuckerman at Critic Appel, "President of the Rabbinical Society for the Suppression of Laughter in the Interest of Loftier Values! Minister of the Official Style for Jewish Books Other than the Manual for Circumcision...