Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word processor a convenient tool for writers, or is it one more device to give panicky Law School students an edge on exams? This question plagues Law School administrators after two students were spotted typing out exam answers on Ozborne processors this fall...
Typing speed, Downer said, "still depends on how fast my fingers hit the keys. I use the processor because my handwriting is sloppy and my typing is sloppy. If you really want to talk about an edge, how about the people in the class who can type 120 words a minute...
Fromex was started by Dr. Bruce Frome, a Los Angeles anesthesiologist who also develops condominiums, and his wife Dede, a fashion designer. Two years ago, a cousin visiting Toronto returned to Los Angeles with tales of a Japanese processor that turned out color prints within an hour. Intrigued, the Fromes bought the equipment for $125,000 and installed it in the window of a store in Encino...
...gleaming, stainless-steel machine is now the focus in every Fromex store. Customers watch as the film goes in one end of the processor and prints come out the other. Says Dede Frome: "People get excited seeing pizza made, so we figured they would like seeing their pictures getting printed...
Designers can pull their drawings apart, enlarge details, apply colors, change shapes, test them under mathematically simulated conditions and edit and modify them. When the work is finished, the computer then stores the results in its memory much as a word processor files office memos or reports for later retrieval. When needed, a touch of a button recalls the most elaborate designs, from the surface of a semiconductor chip to the layout of a sprawling petrochemical complex, back to the screen for examination and perhaps revision...