Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Screen Violence...
...more than 1200 computers together into a setup open to about 150,000 paying customers. Accessing systems almost at random, the student gave the name set of standard answers to demands for password identification from the large computers on the network--hello, test, sysop--ht might type, as his screens filled with logos from systems thousands of miles away. Finally he hit the jackpot, Instead of a flat "password invalid" message the screen filled with additional information: how to open files, change the names of things, even rewrite the operating language of the computer to cause the system to shut...
...Landslide, landslide," the jubilant Republicans chanted as they watched election returns color network maps blue on a wide-screen television...
Crowded around an eight foot-wide television screen, and watched over by a portrait of John F. Kennedy '40, the roughly 120 people in attendance applauded loudest when a network finally projected some electoral votes for Mondale--the three in the District of Columbia...
Tonight's election results will be shown on the shown on the big-screen...