Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious as such setbacks are, they are rarely insuperable. A closing can ultimately prove beneficial if it spurs a town to diversify its economy and attract space-age industries to replace traditional ones. Brockport officials, for example, hope to lure a cluster of high-tech companies. As a drawing card, they point out that Rochester, with its universities and scientific companies like Eastman Kodak, is only 18 miles to the east of Brockport. As soon as Black & Decker finishes packing up its equipment, the village will be able to offer a large, modern industrial plant to interested companies, saving them...
...gave Eagle Coach Ceglarski his 556th career victory, breaking John Maclnnes's record. Maclnnes coached at Michigan Tech from...
What makes the interactive toys tick? That is top-secret information these days. Manufacturers have shrouded their new toys in a haze of high-tech mystery, partly to preserve the sense of wonder about the devices, but also to prevent rivals from making knockoffs. While the technology is nothing that will tip the balance between superpowers, each toy company has developed a creative scheme for linking the toys with TV shows via light beams or audio signals...
While Axlon is tight-lipped about its Tech Force robots, executives confirm that the toys are controlled by audio signals. Michael Hatcher, Axlon's senior product manager, imitates the sound by muttering a low-pitched beeping noise. The Tech Force robots will carry microprocessors that decode the signals from the sound track of the Tech Force cartoon program. Those beeps -- signifying such commands as forward, reverse, right and left -- will send the robots wheeling across the living-room floor. At the same time, children can control other robots by sending out audio commands from a small keyboard. That way youngsters...
...Captain Power toys will face at least two rivals. Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and now head of a toy company called Axlon, has developed Tech Force and the Moto-Monsters, a group of mobile robots that are scheduled to go on sale this month. The Tech Force robots will move in response to a cartoon show that will debut in the fall, as well as to commands from a keyboard. The starting price is high: about $250 for a set of two hero robots, two villainous ones and two keyboards. Another competitor will be World Events Productions...