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Completely changing the face of Intel, Grove set his assembly line to produce microprocessors instead of simple memory chips. Intel soon came out with the 386 microprocessor, which became an instant hit. And by the mid-80s, the personal computer, or PC, was becoming mainstream. In 1981 IBM made the little-publicized decision to use Intel chips in its PCs. Now, as the computer age exploded, Intel began to take off--and the rest was history...
Believed to be in his mid-80s today, he has his headquarters in a complex around a former monastery near the village of Vlodrop, Holland, and presides over a network of schools and universities, ayurvedic health products and "cosmic software." Worldwide, his 4 million devotees see and hear the familiar bearded figure uttering gnomic wisdom on his 24-hour TV channel (e.g., "The goddess of learning lives in your head" and "If you don't believe me, get an operation and check...
...Back in the mid-80s, I made quite a name for myself in L.A. as a cage dancer," Simon said of his career wiggling to the Chuck Mangione number "Feel So Good...
...assembled this program in the mid-80s and has used it for about 60 percent of its instruction since...
Until the mid-80s, Morell was a street photographer in the tradition of Robert Frank. He strolled through cities, hoping to capture the accidental compositions of the metropolis, chance photogenic oddities. With the birth of his son, Morell discovered the wonders of the domestic interior, the strangeness of objects--there was "a huge landscape of...things" to be investigated. Like a Columbus of the kitchen floor, Morell began to photograph cooking eggs, refrigerators, building blocks and realized that "you don't have to go to Tibet to find a great picture...