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Indeed, while throwing house parties is one of the more obvious things a house committee can do, encouraging an active film or music society, buying equipment like pool tables or VCRs, or throwing more exotic theme parties is beyond the reach of many house committees...
Thieves also stole over $1100 worth of audio-visual equipment from two Harvard buildings: on Sunday, two $300 VCRs were taken from the Boylston Language Lab, and on Tuesday two microphones worth $500 were stolen from the Science Center. All of the stolen equipment had been previously engraved with Harvard identification numbers, so police may be able to trace the merchadise...
...have been far behind those of our major competitors, and American firms have often been slow to turn new technology into commercial products. For example, the American firm Ampex in 1956 introduced video tape recorders for use in the television industry. But Japanese firms recognized the potential for home VCRs, and today they virtually control a worldwide $10 billion market. The Japanese reputation for manufacturing high-quality products is built in large part on American technology. Reported the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness early this year: "Robotics, automation and statistical quality control were all first developed in the United...
...newest and most exotic of the degree-granting corporate classrooms. Started five months ago in Fort Collins, Colo., N.T.U. organizes the videotaping of advanced engineering classes at 16 cooperating universities. The tapes are sent to business sites owned by seven sponsoring corporations. Working engineers "attend" the lectures on VCRs, and mail their course work to the school where the lecture originated. N.T.U. then assembles the credits toward a master's degree. This fall N.T.U. plans to start using satellite transmission. Teleconferencing may occasionally be added so that students can participate in classroom dialogue. So far 270 are enrolled all over...
Whatever VCR equipment the consumer buys, a final challenge must be faced before the machine is hooked up and ready for use: the instructions. Many VCR manuals read as if written in a difficult foreign language. Printed in Japan, where most of the VCRS sold in the U.S. are manufactured, and replete with technical jargon, these booklets often contain such impenetrable prose as the following: "Never connect the output of the [recorder] to an antenna or make simultaneous (parallel) antenna and [recorder] connections at the antenna terminals of your receiver...