Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to alleviate a critical lack of shelf space, Tozzer Library recently aquired twelve high-tech shelves which hold twice as many books as conventional stacks...
...pirate knows, dividing the booty can be tougher than finding it. So Professional Treasure Hunter Mel Fisher has wisely relied on a high-tech mediator. Last year Fisher discovered the sunken loot of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank off the Florida coast in 1622. He retrieved 118,343 items, including emeralds, gold bars and silver coins, with a potential worth estimated by Fisher at $170 million. Last week, after a 22- member committee assigned a value to each item, Fisher fed the data into an IBM computer, which apportioned the goods among...
...chips at below-cost prices and to make its semiconductor market more open to foreign manufacturers. But the pact has stirred sharp controversy over its side effects. By forcing chip prices in the U.S. dramatically upward, critics say, the pact could severely harm the competitive ability of other high-tech industries whose products contain semiconductors...
...which are used by the dozens in personal computers and by the hundreds in larger models. While this type of integrated circuit was developed in the U.S., Japanese companies have proved adept at efficiently turning them out in mass volumes. Part of the problem is a difference in high-tech corporate culture. Says Richard Skinner, president of Integrated Circuit Engineering, a Scottsdale, Ariz., semiconductor-research firm: "In the U.S., the real glamour jobs are in designing the chips. But in Japan the manufacturing guys are equal." Indeed, each time U.S. companies have developed a larger-capacity memory chip (first...
Many buyers of chips, however, complain that the Government is protecting one high-tech industry by raising costs for many others. The protests have even come from the European Community, which believes its computer makers could be hurt by rising semiconductor costs. At Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, Calif., the cost of producing a system containing 144 one-megabit memory chips has nearly doubled because the semiconductors have increased in price from $22 to $107. Says Jerry Sugar, president of Classic Technology, a computer-systems maker in San Jose: "I called Washington to protest. Higher chip prices are going...