Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vectra is a super machine, but it's the service that really makes the difference: you get a three-year warranty and software that enables technicians to dial in to your PC over a modem line to diagnose and fix problems. An optional networking kit lets you link PCs to share files or a printer. Configurations cost up to $3,264 for a 200-MHz Pentium system...
First to ship is Sun's JavaStation, a sleek, streamlined machine designed to make maximum use of the Java language (which Sun developed) and the vast storage capacity of the Internet (which runs largely on Sun's computer servers). Unlike most PCs, the JavaStation has no hard drive, doesn't play CD-ROMs and takes no floppies. Users are supposed to store their personal files on the servers and download whatever little application programs (or "applets") they need directly from the Net. The price of the base machine, with one fast microSPARCII chip, starts at $750. By the time...
...There must be something magical about the decade that keeps romancing American pop culture. How else explain the resurrection of Afros, polyester and funk in movies, music and now on our PCs...
...laugh or two. With the gas crisis still raging, bands of vigilantes (who look suspiciously like the waiting line at Studio 54) are blasting their way around the Southwest. Your mission: to join the pack and stop a rival gang of terrorists. All good fun, but why load up PCs, those most '90s of devices, with this tribute to the '70s? "The future," explains developer Zack Norman, "is boring." Maybe, but we can at least hope it doesn't include neon-orange corduroy vests...
...advantage of the new low-power personal communication systems over conventional cellular phones is that they are lighter and more versatile; the disadvantage is that they need more antenna sites, spaced more closely together. And in the competitive rush to get their pcs networks up and running, companies are cobbling together erector-set structures and slapping them down willy-nilly. "Pretty soon when we look out at a sunset," says Jacksonville, Florida, homeowner Suzanne Jenkins, "these towers will be what...