Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-tech razzle-dazzle of a consumer-electronics trade show. But most of the computer systems on display started at $50,000 and did a good deal more than play video games. At the booth of a company called Intellicorp, engineers from Ford Aerospace were showing off a program for troubleshooting balky satellites. At the Apollo Computer display, a firm called Visual Intelligence had a system to help nuclear-plant operators quickly interpret the kind of instrument readings that confused technicians at Three Mile Island. On a Digital Equipment computer, newspaper specialists from Composition Systems exhibited a program that lets...
LAST FRIDAY, THE Vice President of the United States was in town to preach the gospel of free enterprise against a hi-tech backdrop. With 40 reporters and 20 television cameras in tow, George Bush toured the Teradyne Co. plant in South Boston and addressed several hundred employees. The buzzwords of the day were familiar ones--innovation, growth, opportunity and competitiveness. The omissions were just as predictable...
...Teradyne, Bush praised Boston's hi-tech industrial leaders, calling them an example for the national and the world. Teradyne, a $400 million operation, produces sophisticated automatic test equipment for the telecommunications and aerospace fields...
...Your competitiveness--and the competitiveness of everyone in the hi-tech community here in the Boston area--is America's competitiveness," Bush declared...
...addition, the insititution's presence reportedly pumps more than $1 million into the local economy. And don't forget all those high tech research firms and croissant eating yuppies who flock to share the same city with one of the world's greatest institutions...