Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Election Day draws nearer, Reagan will seek the video limelight even more. On the Fourth of July, he will start the Daytona Beach Firecracker 400 stock-car race by telephone from Air Force One. The President's jet is scheduled to land at the airport within camera range of the track, and if all goes smoothly, the onetime sportscaster might even climb into the announcer's booth and call a few laps. Smiles a Reagan campaign official: "That ought to be seen at some point by millions of good, solid, Middle Americans." But that is nothing. Some...
...pizza one of the most popular in the area. Pinnchio's (74 Winthrop St.). Mostly take-out, with fast service, Pinnochio's is inexpensive and that's as it should be. Three Aces (1613 Mass, Ave.): A staple of Quadlings, Three Aces offers thick crusted, cheesy pizza, no frills, Video games, too, while you wait...
Directions for hooking up and operating video cassette recorders can be particularly maddening. A frequent mystery is how to connect the machines to television sets and antennas. Owners must often pick their way through mazes of diagrams and technical terms like "One-touch type F connector" that seem to have been written for licensed electricians. Some manuals compound the confusion with illustrations that differ from the actual machine. Notes the 46-page booklet for a Panasonic OmniVision model: "Please be assured that this difference is not due to mistake but to ongoing product improvement...
Many retailers are impressed with the manual for Apple's new Macintosh computer. Designed to be used with tapes and video displays, it guides Macintosh owners gently through a technological thicket. Says Chris Espinosa, 22, an eight-year Apple veteran who supervised the booklet's preparation: "A good manual is not a narrative; it is an outline or report. Nobody ever reads a manual cover to cover-only mutants do that...
...Coleco's Adam, the big hit of last year's show, was plagued by production problems and sold poorly after going on the market in October. The product has been rolled out again at a price of about $750. Atari, which lost $539 million last year on video games and home computers, announced last week that it will introduce a new home machine this fall that will have a larger memory...