Word: micros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each of the nation's 82,000 public schools. But the number of machines available to each school varies widely. A survey by Market Data Retrieval Inc. found that 80% of the country's 2,000 largest and richest public high schools now have at least one micro, while 60% of the 2,000 poorest schools have none. Says Market Data President Herbert Lobsenz: "If computers are the wave of the future, a lot of America is being washed...
...families come apart in the face of the micro invasion...
...separate bits of data, or four times the capacity of the 16K RAM, which until recently was the industry standard. For U.S. chipmakers, who have watched the Japanese cripple the American auto, steel and television industries, the 64K strike was ominous. Says W.J. Sanders III, chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, one of the many semiconductor firms that have sprouted in Northern California's Silicon Valley: "This highly successful, productive U.S. industry, the leading edge of this country's economic future, is hurting...
...compared with $1,530 for the genuine article in the U.S. A few of the bogus machines bear Apple Computer Inc.'s distinctive trademark, a multicolored apple with a bite missing. Others have slightly changed names like Apolo. Asian manufacturers have so successfully duplicated the silicon micro chips in the core of the Apple machines that the imitations can use a broad range of software, from VisiCalc, the top-selling business budgeting and planning program, to video games like Snack Attack and Rocket Intercept...
...modem (a telephone computer hookup), and taps out a password on his $685 home terminal. A few seconds later Marc is into an ARPANET computer, 3,000 miles away on the M.I.T. campus. Once in, he can call up such files as "humor," "scifi lovers" and "info micro"-a collection of computer brain teasers. This free play, however, may soon stop. The Government, which has long looked on "visiting" as an annoyance, is now eliminating telephone links and devising more complicated passwords...