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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic manager at the main airport. As for the Mooney, Doyle said, "I don't know where that aircraft was." Investigators said the Mooney may have been "squawking" with a transponder -- a device that amplifies its radar reflection -- since printouts indicate its blip may have appeared on one radar screen. If so, why had the controller not warned the commuter pilot? A possible explanation: the Mooney was not transmitting information on its altitude, and thus the danger was not apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tragic Repeat | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Everything you have always known about sex but have never heard coming at you from the screen. And perhaps never wanted to either. Such are the ambiguous pleasures of The Decline of the American Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Little Sex, a Little Death | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...screen shows two Dallas Cowboys football players, Randy White and Ed ("Too Tall") Jones, collecting litter along a Texas highway. As White picks up a discarded beer can, he leans into the camera and growls, "You see the guy who threw this out the window? I got a message for him." He crushes the can in one powerful fist as Jones snarls, "Don't mess with Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: Real Men Don't Litter | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...boot up. The Happy Hacker uses his hard disk's autoexec.bat file to perform several functions. After checking a calendar program to see if it's a friend's or relative's birthday, loading in a ramdisk and copying certain files to it, installing a utility which blanks the screen after five minutes of non-use, and finally printing a quote of the day (drawn from a very large database), the Happy Hacker finally has control and is given his reassuring friend, the C prompt (C is the drive name of the Happy Hacker's hard disk...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Making an IBM Compatible User Friendly is as Easy as BAT | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

...commander reads the directory and displays all of the files in the right hand corner of the screen. The user can use the arrow keys to move the cursor from one file to another. Upon selecting a file, the user then hits one of several function keys to perform a given function such as listing, running program, or printing out the file...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Making an IBM Compatible User Friendly is as Easy as BAT | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

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