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...Apple II. He worked from some pre-existing technology, scaling it down radically and making it affordable to consumers as well as corporations. "Steve didn't do one circuit, design or piece of code," says Wozniak, who was widely regarded as the true technological wizard in Jobs' corporate Oz. "He's not really been into computers, and to this day he has never gone through a computer manual. But it never crossed my mind to sell computers. It was Steve who said, 'Let's hold them up in the air and sell...
...versity) kept thinking small. In 1980 he introduced the world's littlest and cheapest personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80. Last September a more sophisticated version of the ZX80 made its debut in the U.S. as the Timex Sinclair 1000 (list price: $99). Since then, the 12-oz. units have been in a race with Commodore for top spot in worldwide computer sales...
...DARK CRYSTAL Directed by Jim Benson and Frank Oz Screenplay by David Odell...
...Kermit. No Bert and Ernie. Sam the Nixonian eagle and Grover, with his perpetually pubescent voice, are elsewhere. This movie is serious: Jim Henson's foray into the art, dammit, of puppetry. With the help of Star Wars Producer Gary Kurtz, Faeries Artist Brian Froud, fellow Muppeteer Frank Oz and $26 million, Henson has devised a luxuriantly original fantasy world as dark as the magic crystal totem at its center. The setting is "another world, another time, in the Age of Wonder." A war between the benevolent Mystics (who look like shaggy-dog anteaters) and the evil Skeksis (pustular...
...months the cash drain was kept quiet. But eventually the lending banks began to pick up the whiff of desperation. Brazil dipped into its $5.5 billion reserve of U.S. dollars and even pledged its entire 2.5 million-oz. gold cache to secure credit. Then the government-controlled Banco do Brasil, which finances the nation's international trade, began drawing down cash, estimated at nearly $2 billion, that it ordinarily keeps on deposit with major international banks. When that was exhausted, the Brazilian bank was forced to turn to overnight borrowings to stay in business...