Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry is bracing for IBM's entry into the market for home computers. Although IBM still refuses even to confirm the machine's existence, the company is expected to introduce a smaller, less expensive version of the PC, once code named the Peanut, as early as this month. One outsider claims that Peanuts have already been shipped to independent software developers so that they can work out bugs in programs for the new machine...
...Peanut is expected to sell for $600 to $700 stripped down; $1,300 with a monitor and other extras. Anticipation of its arrival has already driven down the stock price of competitors like Apple, Coleco and Commodore. Says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter: "It is like living under Mount St. Helens while it is rumbling. You can't rebuild your house until after the eruption...
...could be complacent; you could play it safe and not change. All the natural forces in the business pressure you in that direction." But one sign that the pace of the past two years will continue will be the arrival of a home computer, which IBM originally code-named "peanut." This will sell for about $700 and could reach stores in late fall. The machine, fully compatible with the PC, will come with a built-in disc drive and cartridge slot for software. "It will offer the best performance on the market for its price," asserts Clive Smith, a computer...
Last year Murphy recorded an album of his stand-up comedy at the Comic Strip in Manhattan, where a few years earlier he had been working for peanut shells. The LP, an undisciplined 48 minutes mixing raunchy insults with on-target family humor, copped two Grammy nominations and has sold 250,000 copies...
...them to his infantile wishes. In this cartoon nightmare, giant skinned rabbits pop out of hats, and people who talk back have their mouths erased. Like the best Twilight Zone originals, Dante's horror-comic homily provides an oblique moral: youth must not be served, at least not peanut-butter burgers on a paper plate...