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Computer journals report that IBM will release a new series of Think Pad laptops within the month: the 755, 355 and 510. The new line is based on the ThinkPad 750, widely regarded as the standard of reference for portable computing...

Author: By Eugene Koh, | Title: NBC Meets The Future | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...three new ThinkPads will continue to offer IBM's new mouse technology--in which usurers point on a fingertip sensitive pad to move the cursor--rather than the trackballs used in most portable computers...

Author: By Eugene Koh, | Title: NBC Meets The Future | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Washington -- NASA's planned $17 billion space station, dubbed the "Orbiting Pork Barrel" by opponents, barely got past the House last year. This year it may not even lift off the pad of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Influential Chairman GEORGE BROWN, worried about the project's effect on other items in the nasa budget, has told the President to glean some money from elsewhere for the station -- perhaps from foreign aid or environmental programs -- or else Brown's pivotal vote for the project will stay grounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Apr. 18, 1994 | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...Bill didn't have a topic for his senior thesisuntil two weeks before it was due," Adams says."He finally picked out a topic, and I rememberthat during rehearsals, there Bill was in costume,under the stage, in between scenes, with a pad andpaper, writing his thesis...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: At Harvard, Weld Was Scholar, Free Spirit | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

...TRUE THAT SINGERS SING NOTES, but the word evokes bland images of Post- its on refrigerator doors, "call me" messages scrawled on a pad near the telephone, disposable e-mail hurriedly read and quickly spiked. There has to be a classier term for what Cassandra Wilson sings. Notes just doesn't cover it. You'd have to say that she sings entire epistles, love letters to the soul; every sound that leaves her lips is filled with paragraphs of emotion, written lovingly in longhand with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Soft Songs, Hard Truths | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

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