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...when you get called into a meeting with, say, the President. Sitting in the Oval Office with something that looks like an electronic notepad on steroids cradled in your palm, you discreetly dash off a message: "Running late. Be patient." With the tap of a pencil-like stylus, your note is beamed through the ether to the other side of town, where it lodges in a similar device, stowed in your daughter's book bag, and sets off a little beep. She hauls out her notepad, reads your message on the screen, scrawls across the bottom, "Cool. I'll hang...
...word processing, calculating and other jobs) gives it an unfair advantage. More than 80% of all personal computers use the company's DOS, while an additional 3% use OS/2. One rival, Go Corp., charges that Microsoft swiped its idea for a software system that operates computers through a stylus capable of writing on the screen rather than through a keyboard. Microsoft (along with Hewlett-Packard) is also the target of a suit filed by Apple charging the company with illegally copying the "look and feel" of its Macintosh graphics software...
...device is about the size and shape of a clipboard. In place of a keyboard and an electronic mouse, there is a large liquid-crystal screen and a small electronic stylus. Want to draft a note? Just write directly on the etched-glass screen as you would on a piece of paper; the writing is transformed into letters that appear as if by magic. Want to change a word? Just circle it. Want to cross out a sentence? Just scratch it out. Want to add a phrase? Just draw a little caret under the insertion point and start writing. Capitalizing...
...computer beeps to tell him he is approaching the spot, Poveromo flicks on a bread-box-size electronic instrument, his "fish finder." By sending sound waves into the water, the machine, operating much like a radar device, probes for objects beneath the surface. The findings are recorded by a stylus that moves across a rotating paper drum. At first Poveromo sees only the line that represents the ocean floor. Then a group of gray blotches suddenly appears on the paper. Poveromo hastily baits three hooks with mullet and tosses them over. Within 30 seconds, a mammoth tug bends...
...debate over compact discs goes to the heart of the new medium. In analog recording, sound waves are transcribed as grooves onto a vinyl disc. The grooves are then traced by a diamond-tipped stylus in the tone arm of the turntable to re-create the sound. In digital recording, the music is sampled by a microchip at the rate of 44,100 times a second and expressed as a series of ones and zeros. Encoded in invisible "pits," the numbers are read by a player equipped with a laser beam, which relays the information to a microcomputer that converts...