Word: merlins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fell in love with the Merlin wireless modem the first time I saw a picture of one in an ad. It is so adorable. The modem is built into one of those PCMCIA cards that fit into a credit-card-size slot on a laptop computer; a teeny, 2-in. antenna--so cute!--pops up to send and receive data at 19.2 kbps. That's a fairly pedestrian speed, but if it meant I could do e-mail and even browse the Web while riding the Long Island Rail Road, I'd happily put up with it. Imagine...
...sorry for the deaths of three young people and for their families, who grieve for them. But I am appalled at the extravagant outpouring of adulation. MERLIN ANDREW Toronto...
...Merlin's Money...
Doyle's claim to fame was the hand-held game Merlin, which he invented in the 1970s. Merlin, an electronic game similar to Simon, was marketed by Parket Brothers and featured on the cover of Newsweek when it debuted in 1978. About 5 million were sold, according to Doyle...
Doyle acknowledges that he "made quite a bit of money" from the success of Merlin and has since donated an estimated $15,000 worth of equipment to HRTV...