Word: printings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There will also be capacity for 16 teletypes linked to the computer. These teletypes will be able to print output at ten characters per second. Plans for locating these teletypes are still being made. Dix emphasized that the most important feature of the new computer is the "whole spectrum of possible remote devices...
...chronic asthma, malarial mosquitoes and the tasks of directing 19 native police and supervising roads and drains, Cary would sit down each night by a kerosene lamp and turn out 2,000 to 3,000 words of fiction that he had no confidence would ever see the light of print. He tore up much of it ("I hadn't yet decided what I meant") and worked and reworked one novel, Cock Jarvis, which he never did complete. Eventually, he caught on with some stories for the Saturday Evening Post and made a little money. Eventually, too, he got back...
...concern was not salaries but union resistance to automation. He had powerful local support from the beginning. Otis Chandler's nonunion and increasingly automated Los Angeles Times, a bit beset by federal antitrust action, feels more comfortable with a rival around. For a time, it helped Hearst print his strike-bound paper. Mayor Sam Yorty, a Democrat of sorts, put city hall on Hearst's side. "I think the unions should get wise to themselves," he said. "They're putting the newspapers out of business." More important, the city's big businessmen stuck with Hearst. Although...
...might have been offered in allowing the eye and the mind's ear to skid passively over the letters and words is reduced by the book's arbitrarily changing typography. The continuous flow of conversation that can be experienced by listening to a tape is fragmented in print by paragraphs, arbitrary variations in column width and distracting initials used to identify the speakers...
...resolution to print the editorial passed by a vote of 44 to 21, barely more than the two-thirds minimum it needed. Three editors abstained from voting...