Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, many of today's undergraduates cut their computer teeth on systems like the Atari 800 and Commodore 64 and Coleco Adam. They only cost a few hundred dollars and plugged right into your television set. And unlike IBM's original PC, they were colorful and easy...
These early machines had a lot in common with pet rocks, however. They mostly just sat there. Unlike the ever-expandable IBM PC, you were limited in what you could do with them. Eventually, people got bored and bought more powerful machines--like the IBM PC and its clones...
...year and a half ago, major PC magazines were fighting to be the first to press with "exclusive" looks at this new game--even though not a single line of the game's code had been programmed...
...Fellini does not dwell on any one episode long enough for the audience to set its PC compass. Snaporaz flits between aging but incorrigible Romeo and misunderstood old man. His female assailants behave with both sympathy and cruelty. The action lurches from suffragette rallies to phallus-filled boudoirs, from women-run dungeons to sexual fair-grounds for men. The movie builds its perspective on the pace and variety of many surreal sexual encounters, rather than a single moralistic take on the war between the sexes...
...enough. Some experts doubt that Amelio will have better luck. "The change of guard gives the appearance of a fresh start, but Amelio cannot change the fundamentals of the company," says Richard Shaffer, editor of Technologic Partners Newsletter. Apple is trapped as a niche player in the very PC market it helped create, he says. In other words, watch for the ground to shake further...