Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson, this is a result of our technology, and the fact that late-breaking news often causes the paper's layout to change. Stories are written on IBM PC compatible machines but the paper is laid out on Macintoshes. Since the size, length and style of the headline is usually not known at the time a story is written, and since the two systems are quite different, it is close to impossible for reporters to write their own headlines...
...sold this year. While Big Blue probably made a sound business decision, "it's easy for IBM to say this," says TIME science writer Philip Elmer-Dewitt. "IBM is competing with Intel." Keep in mind that IBM is launching it's next wave of personal computers based on Power PC -- a chip being developed in partnership with Apple Computers and Intel rival Motorola.Post your opinion on theScience & Technologybulletin board...
...players with machines in the studio, but some are taking advantage of the current multimedia craze to release CD-ROM versions of their recordings. These special editions often contain both sound data from their audio CD cousins and computer data that can be loaded into a Windows or Macintosh PC to provide a graphical interface to the music...
...software development industry took notice when folks from the music world began including computer-readable data on their CDs, responding in kind by including traditional audio data on their CD-ROMs. Today, many of the latest CD-ROM releases include audio soundtracks that can be played either through the PC or separately in a standard audio CD player...
...clashing interests help explain why IBM and Apple, after spending so many years competing, now have trouble collaborating. The two agreed in 1991 to sign on with Motorola in the venture that produced the chip at the heart of both the Power Mac and IBM's long-awaited Power PC. But analysts say conflicts within IBM's personal-computer unit over whether to pursue a joint strategy have prevented the company from keeping pace with Apple: while that company has shipped some 600,000 Power Macs since March, IBM is still waiting for software companies to develop additional programs...