Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present course uses a teletype, which is just a typewriter connected to a computer, and an automatic slide screen. Blocks of text, tables and diagrams are flashed to the student on the screen. The teletype taps out accompanying question and problems...
After the student finishers reading a text on the screen, he presses a key on the teletype to signal that he is ready to continue. His mechanical teacher then fires a question at him and waits for a response. The correct answer typed back will elicit a "Good" or "That's fine" followed by more questions or new material on the slide screen. If the student's answer is incorrect he'll get a "No" with an explanation and perhaps a mild chiding, "What are you going to do when we get to the hard questions...
Sometimes a question refers to a graph or a table, for example, "According to table 3..." The student can bring table 3 to the slide screen by typing out "Table...
...Part-Time Television Plan: A Startling but Perfectly Reasonable Proposal for the De-escalation of Television in a Free Society, Mass Media-wise." The plan calls for a week like this: Monday. Television as usual. Tuesday. The set goes black, but one word shines in the center of the screen: Read...
...Fashion can be bought," said one-time Vogue Editor Edna Woolman Chase. "Style one must possess." The Thomas Crown Affair has spent millions on fashion; Faye Dunaway makes 31 smashing costume changes, while Steve McQueen appears in $350 suits and consults a $2,250 Patek Philippe watch. The screen that exhibits them is a flashy replay of Expo 67 techniques, fragmenting into scores of tiny separate images like a mint sheet of stamps, or simultaneously showing five characters in five different places...