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...have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal," says a doctor in Michael Crichton's bestselling chiller The Terminal Man. "The patient is a readout device for the new computer." Cast as that patient in the movie now being filmed, George Segal seems to have bought the fantasy whole. "I'm just passing through the picture," he declared after the movie doctors attached wires to his shaven skull. "What they do to my brain is up to them...
...1960s. The machine's brain is a tiny silicone chip coated with layers of metal oxide, and was originally developed for use in the guidance systems of missiles and spacecraft. The chip crams the calculating power of several thousand transistors into an amazingly tiny package, with the readout of problems appearing on a digital lighting panel. Prices range from $60 to $425, depending on the number of digits a model can handle and its extra features. By far the most important of these is the presence of a "floating" decimal point that automatically appears in an answer...
...they go past. Already in use in 14 states and now being evaluated by 33 others, VASCAR, which was invented by Arthur M. Marshall, a Richmond real estate agent and lifelong tinkerer, will soon come out in a more sophisticated form, with a digital computer and readout substituted for the current mechanical computer...
...that has been scanned. By reconstructing three such photographs taken with sounds of different frequencies, the scientists believe that they wil soon be able to make multicolored sound pictures of even greater accuracy. The oscilloscope pattern can also be fed into a computer rather than being filmed, for rapid readout that shows a two-dimensional image for quick identification...
...system is such that a NORAD officer can point to a mark on the headquarters battle map, indicating a plane above Siberia, push a readout button and, in seconds, learn the plane's height, speed, direction and how long it would take to reach any major U.S. city. If a strike should come, NORAD's fighter-interceptors are so equipped that a single commander on the ground can, through computers, coordinate hundreds of them in a defensive attack...