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Word: redactor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them from his Lanier "No Problem." Historical Romance Writer Robyn Carr (The Blue Falcon) fears that workmen digging near her new house in Florida will hit a power line. A voltage drop of even a few seconds could cause the displayed page of text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit, 30, recently heard a zap, and his Radio Shack TRS-80 stopped dead. It seemed that ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plugged-ln Prose | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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