Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just give a dial tone. As in many hotels, guests can press different buttons on the phone for food, a bell captain, a maid, the valet service or medical aid. But they can also hit other buttons to adjust the temperature setting, change the speed of the fan and switch channels on the TV. If a guest forgets to bolt the door, a red light appears on the phone. Each unit is connected to a smoke detector, and if a fire breaks out, the phone automatically alerts the hotel's security desk. The staff can then broadcast evacuation instructions...
...decision to abandon SelectaVision comes just as disc-player sales seemed to switch into fast-forward. After producing some 250,000 SelectaVision sets last year, the company was selling them during the past month at the rate of 400,000 a year. Company executives, though, figured that they would need to produce three or four times that many to make a sufficient profit. Only about 12,000 SelectaVisions remain in stock at RCA's Bloomington, Ind., plant, but wholesalers and dealers have about 150,000 left...
Wise's first task in writing his program was to create the objects displayed on the screen. These are actually just patterns of colored dots, with each dot controlled by an individual on-off switch. Wise sketched the images on an electronic drawing
...commands tell the computer to determine the jet's altitude (JETY) and subtract the altitude of the enemy missile (EMISY). If the result is ten or more, the two objects have missed each other. If it is less than ten, the program puts a one in a special switch called JETCOND that sends the jet into a flaming crash...
While refraining from condemning Marcos, Washington too has conspicuously refused to condone him. Instead, it has quietly signaled its displeasure with the regime. Only last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to switch from military to economic aid $30 million of the $180 million the U.S. plans to pay annually for continued use of military bases in the strategically important islands. The committee also added a rider to the foreign aid bill, linking future funds to the findings of the commission that is investigating Aquino's death...