Word: siliconized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon as his official visit with President Reagan was over, Mitterrand borrowed Air Force One and took off on a five-day, seven-city tour of all things American, from high-tech microchips from Silicon Valley to a down-home barbecue in Illinois...
...reports Greg Register, manager of a computer store in Apex, N.C. Apple's engineers, who decided not to make their machine compatible with IBM's PC or their own Apple II line, were able to take advantage of the in creased power of the latest generation of silicon chips and new software that has made the Macintosh attractive to computer novices. "Once I saw the Macintosh I knew I wanted it," says Richard Petroca, a civil engineer from Long Island who uses the machine for letters and busi ness reports. "It's easy...
...Calif. (1983 sales: $1.2 billion). The firm pleaded guilty to 40 charges of defrauding the Government by failing to test electronic products properly, and agreed to pay nearly $1.8 million in civil and criminal fines. The Defense Department is investigating 14 other military suppliers, including Fairchild Camera & Instrument, a Silicon Valley firm...
...five salesmen in Pennsylvania." Two innovative firms, Microrim, from Bellevue, Wash., and Artificial Intelligence, from Waltham, Mass., demonstrated programs that allow people to search for information in large mainframe computer data banks by posing questions in ordinary English. A new firm called Menlo, based in the Silicon Valley, unveiled In-Search, which allows callers to tap into Lockheed's huge Dialog bibliographic data base without the usual two-day training seminar...
...developer, Chicago's Urban Investment & Development Co., a subsidiary of Aetna Life & Casualty, became interested in Copley Place through its senior vice president, Kenneth A. Himmel, 37, who grew up in the Boston area. "We are aiming at an entirely new market," explains Himmel. "Silicon Valley is moving east. The bright young people in the electronic and related industries are attracted by Boston's unusual cultural, scientific and educational facilities, if not to settle and work there, at least to visit, meet and consult. Back Bay, with its new railroad station and freeway exits, is just the place...