Word: token
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer is a token-ring network, named for electronic signals called tokens that race constantly through the system. IBM compares the token to a tape recorder being passed around a giant conference table. Users leave a message on the token and send it along to the person to whom the information is addressed. To connect with IBM's system, users need special software and an extra circuit board that goes into the machine...
...token of his appreciation, Slive said that he gave a tin cup to each of the people who helped to make the miracle happen. "The tin cup was a symbol of the whole operation because we literally had to beg for money," Slive said...
...department offered one female professor a lifetime post last year, but she turned it down, in part because she said she did not want to feel like the token female, Grabar says...
...token of his appreciation, Slive said that he gave a tin cup to each of the people who helped to make the miracle happen. "The tin cup was a symbol of the whole operation because we literally had to beg for money," Slive said...
...same token, Pickens said in a heavy Texas twang, he would do nothing contrary to the interests of his own stockholders to fend off a hostile takeover attempt...