Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Siskel: "Good evening and welcome to possibly the most exciting and important show we've ever done. We are devoting the entire program to one devastating series of films, a homegrown product that had to be exported to France before it gained its deserved recognition in this country. I'm speaking of course of the recent rerelease of all 13 parts of that American Gross-Out Gothic, Friday the Thirteenth...
THERE COMES A TIME when a we need a certain call, a seductive vet calculated earnestness amidst the normal audible drivel of AM car radios that can only be the product of supposedly good intentions meeting high-powered marketing...
When Robert Strauss learned in March that the PCjr computer he had purchased only last November was going to be dropped from IBM's product line, he immediately called the Boston Computer Exchange and put his equipment up for sale. "I wanted to get rid of it before everybody else read the newspapers," says Strauss, a hotel night auditor from Waltham, Mass. But he got no takers, even at 40% off the $1,399 list price. Fifteen months after its arrival on the market, the PCjr had joined the ranks of the computer "orphans." Because it was forsaken...
...computer field (Coleco, Mattel, Timex). IBM's higher-priced models are still enormously successful, which ensures a steady stream of IBM compatible software, some of which will run on the PCjr. Moreover, the giant company has promised to continue to provide parts and service "as long as the product is around...
Other organizations are more short lived. Membership in clubs sponsored by the Boston Computer Society often soars when a product is discontinued, only to wane as members move on to bigger and better machines. Says President Jonathan Rothanburg: "After a few years, the groups that form around an orphan computer pretty much disappear...