Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more creative photographers will have the chance to load Photo CD images into home computers and turn their Macs and PCs into electronic darkrooms, where they can create studio-quality pictures that might be printed on color printers, turned into Christmas cards or sent to friends and relatives over ordinary phone lines. Adventurous types will even be able to manipulate the digitized images, pixelediting crazy Uncle Harry out of a shot, for example, or grafting his head onto Fido's body...
There was something else, much more important, you should have known: that in a democracy, crises aren't resolved by men on horseback, even if they are from Texas and carry PCs in their saddlebags. Often the cry for leadership is an excuse for civic laziness, for not taking responsibility...
...firm. Now, under the gun for DEC's financial woes -- a huge loss is anticipated for the quarter just ended -- he is stepping down. Olsen foresaw the decline of giant mainframe computers in favor of smaller minicomputers, but he failed to anticipate the revolution in even smaller workstations and PCs...
First it was the home. Phones, fax machines and PCs made it impossible to leave work at the office. Then the cellular phone made the car, even the golf course, fair game. In 1984 Airfone Inc., a GTE subsidiary, began installing telephones on airplanes. But their old-fashioned analog circuitry, vulnerable to interference, made many calls sound as if they came from Mars. Moreover, plane phones were usually scarce, located either fore or aft or shared, one to a three-seat complex, leaving travelers a reasonable excuse for staying blissfully out of pocket...
...reportage by a team of veteran Nova and BBC hands, it is less a chronicle of hardware than a loving exploration of the sometimes rocky relationship between the first mindlike machines and the people who created them. Heady data for a generation that tends to take its Macs and PCs for granted. P.E-D...