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Even when the Government gives its blessing, U.S. microchip makers cannot bring themselves to collaborate. Their deep-down resistance to joint efforts came to the surface last week with the scuttling of U.S. Memories, a consortium formed seven months ago by American firms to compete in the Japanese-dominated market for memory chips. With such powerful backers as IBM and Digital Equipment, U.S. Memories planned to build a $1 billion plant to produce chips for everything from personal computers to missile-guidance systems. But a worldwide glut of memory chips, which has pushed prices lower, prompted many would-be investors...
Weighing 13 oz., measuring 5 1/2 in. square and powered by four AA batteries, the microchip Bible is more portable than most published editions. By punching in book, chapter and verse, the user can immediately call up any of the 31,173 verses of Scripture on the screen's four display lines. From there the text can be read continuously, backward or forward...
Franklin's Bible will soon have to compete with a similar product developed by the SelecTronics company of Minneapolis. The SelecTronics Bible, also priced at $299, will contain the New International Version that is favored by conservative Evangelicals. Why the scramble to break into the microchip-Bible market? According to II Timothy 3: 16, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable" for believers. Obviously, computer companies are also hoping to turn a profit from Holy Writ...
...YORK--It was a battle of world chess champions--human vs. computer--and the mind proved mightier than the microchip...
...could meet such standards by upgrading their current pollution controls rather than developing expensive new systems. For example, the bill would require that catalytic converters, now guaranteed to be effective for 50,000 miles, be beefed up to last 100,000 miles. Other alterations would range from adding a microchip to monitor a car's pollution controls to expanding a charcoal canister that catches evaporating gasoline fumes when a car's engine is off. The EPA estimates that such improvements could raise car prices as much as $200 by 1996 and $500 more...