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Word: taping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mountie met seven times with Vartanian, with other Russians involved in arranging the rendezvous; some provided transportation, while others posted cryptic signals. One method was to stick tapes to a pillar in an Ottawa shopping center. According to written instructions given the Mountie, "Vertical position of tape-operation takes place in Montreal. Horizontal position-operation takes place in Ottawa. Yellow color-call for the regular meeting. Black color-call for instant meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Mounties Get Their Man | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...posted its last tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Mounties Get Their Man | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...predicts, 80% of upper-middle-class families will have computers "capable of playing important roles in the intellectual development of their children." Says California Author Robert Albrecht, a pioneer of electronic education: "In schools, computers will be more common than carousel slide projectors, movie projectors and tape recorders. They'll be used from the moment school opens, through recess, through lunch period, and on as far into the day as the principal will keep the school open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...revolution in electronics that began in 1948 with Bell Telephone Laboratories' announcement of the transistor. Small, extremely reliable, and capable of operating with only a fraction of the electricity needed by the vacuum tube, the "solid-state" device proved ideal for making not only inexpensive portable radios and tape recorders but computers as well. Indeed, without the transistor, the computer might never have advanced much beyond the bulky and fickle ENIAC, which was burdened with thousands of large vacuum tubes that consumed great amounts of power, generated tremendous quantities of heat, and frequently burned out. In an industry striving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Science: The Numbers Game | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Today such cards, as well as punched tape, are still used. But they have been supplemented by other methods, including magnetic tapes, discs and drums; the precisely tuned beep-beeps of the Touch-Tone telephone (whose lower left and right buttons have been reserved for computer communications and other information processing); the familiar keyboard-and-TV unit; optical scanners that can "read" characters at high speeds; electronic ears that can recognize a limited number of spoken words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Science: The Numbers Game | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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