Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building 5 (of 26) on the Microsoft campus, the air is filled with the faint ozone smell of burning circuits and the sound of hard drives whirring and rattling like old jalopies. This is the Engine Room, where 150 computers, loaded with all manner of monitors, microprocessors and plug-in cards, are putting Microsoft's newest product through last-minute stress tests. "It's like certifying the Boeing 777," says Rich Waddel, a Microsoft test manager. "There are about 15 million lines of code in this thing...
...will air another prime-time soap special on June 21, which will plug summer story lines for all its daytime dramas. The summer season is an important one for soaps because it offers the prospect of an expanded audience of teenagers home from school. CBS Daytime is launching a high-visibility summer campaign that includes radio, print and prime-time advertising in cities where viewer decline has been particularly precipitous, such as Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle and Washington...
...lead, using 32-bit processors and double-speed CD-ROM drives with sufficient capacity to store VHS-quality video images and CD-quality stereo sound. Nintendo, striking out on its own, is opting for a higher-powered, 64-bit chip, and will store its games on high-capacity, plug-in cartridges instead of CD-ROM discs. Nintendo says this will enable it to offer both a lower-cost system and the blistering speed demanded by its target market: adolescent boys who like the fast-paced "twitch and flinch" action games...
Worried about the safety of its scientists, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to pull the plug on two FBI World Wide Web pages on the Unabomber and the Oklahoma City bombing, according to a memo circulated between NASA and FBI officials and obtained by TIME. NASA runs the computer server used by the FBI to post and gather information on the two cases. But effective June 30, the memo says, NASA will withdraw its Internet support. NASA scientists, it adds, have "concerns about their vulnerability" if the space agency continues to sponsor the project. A NASA official involved...
...sometimes in the living room of her tiny cottage apartment in Coral Gables, Florida. Or it was on the tiled floor at the foot of her bed. It was anywhere, really, that the 23-year-old writer could sprawl with her laptop computer, reach a telephone jack and plug into the Internet...