Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look much like their personal-computer rivals, complete with keyboard and video- display monitors. Like personal computers, the new products are powered by semiconductor chips and use floppy disks that can store up to 140 pages of text. The difference is that the new machines cannot do such high-tech jobs as number-crunching calculation and communication with other computers. Instead, the personal writers perform only routine editing and writing tasks -- at a stripped-down price of around $800, vs. more than $1,500 for a typical...
...shall never surrender." With that Churchillian warning to smugglers, Deputy Commissioner Michael Lane of the U.S. Customs Service formally accepted two E- 2C Hawkeye radar planes from the U.S. Navy in San Diego. The ceremony was designed to showcase the high-tech weapons the Reagan Administration has committed to its war on illegal drugs. Making a similar pitch in Houston, Customs Commissioner William von Raab invited some 65 Texas lawmen to inspect a sophisticated new communications center for coordinating surveillance against smugglers. Alive with radar screens, computers and scrambled-speech telephones, the Blue Fire command post will eventually anchor...
Most used equipment available was far too big for Catamount, whose production this month will begin with only about 2,500 cases for its market area of New Hampshire and Vermont. But a yeast tank from a dismantled Stroh brewery in Detroit became a brew kettle. A high-tech Italian wine filter turned out to be ideal. Stainless-steel conditioning tanks were built to order. By September the partners were ready to begin ten weeks of practice | brewing. Mason says there were few surprises. At one point, a daily check of the yeast culture by Consulting Biologist Mike Sinclair showed...
...competition, hosted by the College of Charleston (COC), featured seven of the nation's top 10 nationally-ranked teams, including COC, which took first place, Georgia Tech, Brown, Navy, Old Dominion, and Tulane...
Little more than a year ago, Control Data looked like a high-tech has-been. The Minneapolis-based company was piling up a staggering 1985 loss of more than $567 million (revenues that year: $3.7 billion). Bankers were refusing to extend the company any more short-term credit, while Wall Streeters were whispering that the firm might have to seek Chapter 11 protection. But today Control Data is running smoothly again, thanks to an overhaul in which the company dumped unprofitable sidelines, sharpened its focus on computer technology and cut its payroll from...