Word: rom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tamagotchi left you with the impression that all digital toys are brain dead, Lego Mindstorms could change your mind. This fall the venerable plastic building blocks will come with motors, sensors, cd-rom and computer controller, enabling kids to create blinking, thinking, moving robots. Developed with M.I.T.'s Media Lab, the new Legos ($200) require children (or their parents) to master a computer-programming language before they can bring the toys to life. With 700 pieces, the set should keep kids busy for days before they terrorize the household...
...students last year, and after a swell of parent demands, expanded the program this fall to 1,000. In Texas, state-school-board president Jack Christie is pushing a proposal to junk textbooks and outfit 4 million students with portable computers complete with Internet access and a CD-ROM drive. He hasn't converted everyone yet, but vows it's "just a matter of time." Says Christie: "There are pockets of resistance--in the same way that people opposed the space program and said we couldn't get to the moon...
...offices in New York City. This month, voyeurs everywhere get their chance to ogle. A Seattle-based adult-entertainment company will release in video stores a 60-minute, digitally remastered version of the domestic affairs of the Lees. Discriminating viewers may choose among several formats: standard VHS ($35.95), CD-ROM ($18.95) or the new Digital Video Disc that includes a photo gallery and multiple screens...
Inside the computer is a circuit board. It houses all sorts of microchips, including those for ROM (read-only memory) and RAM (random-access memory...
...addition, though wage stagnation seems to be easing, workers' insecurity remains high. The layoffs that have accompanied technological change have been burned into their minds like code on a ROM chip. The weakening of labor bargaining power, inherent in a global economy where jobs and investment can be shifted freely, has led to what William Greider in the Nation calls a "widening gap between an expanding production base worldwide and an inability of consumers to buy all the new output...