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...rent. Such private deals are strictly illegal, but they are widely tolerated. Some seaside landladies offer a fair deal, but others are hucksters conjuring up lyrical descriptions of properties that sound too good to be true. Often, they are. A Ukrainian woman found she had rented a deserted shack with no plumbing. Disheartened, she returned to the train station and put down a deposit for another room, but the address proved nonexistent. "I'm sick of the whole idea of vacation," she said. "I want to go home, but I can't buy a train ticket...
...made lap-size computers affordable. Last year Seattle-based Microsoft and Japan's Kyocera came up with the first winner: an eight-line screen with a full-size keyboard that could be sold with built-in software for less than $800. Marketed in slightly different models by Radio Shack, NEC and Olivetti, the machine was an instant hit. Hewlett-Packard and Epson have already introduced "laptops" that boast even more advanced features, and Data General is set to launch a machine next week that shows 25 lines of text...
...Juanita Hollands, 38, a bookkeeper at Radio Shack, the fever arrived with the flame. "It didn't seem real to me until I saw the torch," she said from her place in a ticket line. "Now I want to go to every event." It seemed that the only lines in town were for Olympic tickets; officials said they had already surpassed their $90 million projection by $30 million, and that sales were at 80%, compared with 62% in Montreal...
...simulators before his first shuttle flight. In 1979 a University of Illinois engineer named Bruce Artwick squeezed all the features of a full-fledged simulator into a tiny microcomputer, thus giving the general public a chance to sit in the pilot's seat. The early Apple and Radio Shack versions of his program developed a cult following among computer hobbyists, and the 1982 IBM version soon became an industry standard. This year, when Flight Simulator II appeared on the mass-market Commodore 64 computer, the program flew to the top of software bestseller lists...
Until last year, Harold Costello lived in a two-room shack he had built on 15 acres of wooded land he owns in East Lebanon, Me. A former carpenter making do on $400 a month in disability benefits, he went without electricity and plumbing for four years. But last month Costello's lucky numbers were drawn in the Massachusetts Megabucks lottery. His prize: more than $2 million in annual installments of $113,000 for 20 years. Costello's first purchases were two "double-wide" mobile homes (cost: $30,000 each furnished), one to replace the Maine shack...