Word: polaroid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Well, this idea came to me the next day while I was reading the newspaper. I saw a story on that Polaroid lawsuit against Kodak...
Islamic Jihad initially took responsibility for the Soviet kidnapings too. But then anonymous callers claiming to represent the Islamic Liberation Organization, a group previously unknown, told Western news agencies that they were to blame. Within hours, Polaroid photos of the four Soviets, guns held to their heads, were delivered to news organizations. The kidnapers demanded an immediate end to the fighting in Tripoli between Tawheed, a Sunni Muslim Fundamentalist group, and several Syrian-supported militias. The terrorists seemed to be targeting the Soviet Union because it supports Syria with large amounts of military...
Even if your experience with photography is limited to instamatic shots of your family at your sister's graduation, you will appreciate how some photographers use large Polaroid negatives while others use infrared film; some use color, others black and white; some make huge life-size prints, others print images only inches long. At the ICA, there are photographs of familiar tourist spots and traditional portraits, ugly Indians and bizarre animals...
...when the stuff happens to land on a floppy disk. These sensitive magnetic devices, which carry the software and data used in personal computers, can be rendered useless by a tiny amounts of errant dust or goo. When that happens, the user's work is lost. The problem inspired Polaroid, a new contender in the nearly $1 billion market for floppies, to make the bold claim last March that it could bring any of its damaged disks back to life for no charge. Last week the company boasted that its secret process for fixing the disks has been a success...
About 20 consumers and computer magazine editors put Polaroid to the test by heaping indignities on their disks. Staffers at one computer journal poured a hot-fudge sundae on theirs. Another publication sent Polaroid a floppy covered with mustard, catsup and relish. One disk had been used as a chew toy by a golden retriever. In all those cases, Polaroid was able to clean the disk or electronically transfer the user's work to fresh floppies. The only disk that was less than 100% salvageable was one that a user had sabotaged by riddling it with staples...