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Ultimate Compliment. Fitting smoothly into first grade at Garden Hills school, which has eleven other blind students, Pamela found few differences. A hand-picked "resource teacher" taught her to read Braille and use a Braille writer-a six-key device that works like an oldtime stylus and slate. The blind students carry the writers to class, take tests with them, even do long-division problems with them...
...program and manage their operations; every instruction in a process must be turned into a mathematical equation, which is fed into a computer and transmitted first to punch tape, then to magnetic tape to guide the machines. The Marantettes' idea was far simpler: they wanted to use a stylus-like device connected to high-speed electric motors to "write" instructions directly on magnetic tape; when the tape was fed back electronically through the system of motors, the motors would then convert the tape impulses to mechanical action...
...development of a super pulse-servo that could handle 6,000 pulses per second, fast enough to direct the most complex piece of milling work. To start the system, the operator merely runs the machine through its work by hand a first time. As he performs the task, the stylus records his most minute steps on tape, which then slavishly repeats the process endlessly with the pulse-servos. Cost of the system, which comes in a cabinet no bigger than a medium-size hi-fi set: from $12,000 to $25.000, plus $500 or so to fit it to whatever...
...firebombings did not destroy it. But now, according to Wright, "Westernization" had effected what war and seism could not; there was no imagining "a more outrageous insult to the feeling and character of the original building-and to Japan." In Tokyo, Annex Architect Teitaro Takahashi, 66, had a stylus ready when the Wright balloon came along. Said Takahashi: "Wright's building is not at all Japanese, as he claims, and many of its facilities are now outdated. It was nicely designed for its period, but that was the Ricksha...
...research problem was complicated by a marketing problem: how to convert the public to stereo gradually so as not to endanger the fortune the industry already has invested in monaural LPs. There were two possible ways. One was to develop a cartridge and stylus that would play both straight monaural records and stereo records. The other way-Columbia's-was to develop a stereo record that would sound good with the standard monaural pickup and could also be used when the owner got around to buying stereo sound gear...