Word: shacks
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...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...
...relative, the videocassette recorder, which had come out six years earlier. Most consumers prefer VCRs because the machines can record broadcasts as well as play prerecorded tapes. SelectaVision machines, by contrast, allow the user to play only prerecorded discs. Says Arthur Morowitz, president of New York's Video Shack chain: "It was a dinosaur from the beginning. There was never a really strong need...
...David Nicholas, pastor of the Spanish River Presbyterian Church in Boca Raton, Fla., writes the outlines of his sermons with the help of a program called Super SCRIPSIT on one of his parish's two Radio Shack computers. Thomas Birr, the church's business administrator, uses two titles from the CompuChurch line, the Gift Program to record donations and the Shepherd...
...customers includes every major manufacturer of personal computers. When IBM wanted an operating system for its Personal Computer, it turned to Gates. When Apple needed software for its Macintosh, it gave Microsoft a test model to use in writing the programs. Gates helped with the design of Radio Shack's Model 100, the first truly portable computer. Microsoft produced the MSX systems software that will be used for a new series of Japanese computers. Thanks to that business (and more), Gates, who owns almost half of the privately held company, has become America's software tycoon...