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...1950s made it possible to reduce a room-size computer to a silicon chip the size of a pea. And prices kept dropping. In contrast to the $487,000 paid for ENIAC, a top IBM personal computer today costs about $4,000, and some discounters offer a basic Timex-Sinclair 1000 for $77.95. One computer expert illustrates the trend by estimating that if the automobile business had developed like the computer business, a Rolls-Royce would now cost $2.75 and run 3 million miles on a gallon...
...Clive Sinclair: Small Is Beautiful
...Updike dares to hope for both the reality of God and the sanity of society. "This week, 14 years, 14 books and many prestigious literary awards later, TIME once again has chosen Updike as its cover subject. Only four other novelists have appeared twice on TIME'S covers: Sinclair Lewis (1927, 1945), James Joyce (1934,1939), Ernest Hemingway (1937, 1954) and William Faulkner...
TIMEX. The watchmaker jumped into the computer fray last month with the lowest-priced system, the Timex Sinclair 1000, which sells for just $99. It has less computing power than its rivals, although its capacity can be upgraded. Timex Sinclair has an estimated 26% market share...
...left over for trying to puzzle out the world's mysteries in general, the odd otherness of the opposite sex in particular. He does not smoke pot, play bad music too loudly, or greatly imperil his own or anybody else's virginity. In short, Gregory (Gordon John Sinclair) is what one used to think of as a typical teen-age boy back in the days when adolescence was a goofy phase that adults could afford to indulge instead of a time bomb that needs to be defused. Gregory's Girl seems to exist in some Brigadoon...