Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer business is absolutely blossoming." Mike Boone, a senior, said earlier this week. He added that his video game company, which employs 11 people full-time, has been appraised at more than $1 million...
...addition to allowing students to write and correct on video screens, the word processors will be able to perform list processing, sorting, and mathematical functions...
Working with TIME, Scitex evolved a complex machine that has two adjoining video screens. One of the monitors displays, in symbolic form, the story, headlines, art and pictures that the designer wants to place on a page. He can then move the elements around, altering their sizes and positions. The other monitor shows, in color, what the completed page will look like. "With the Vista," says Leliévre, "we can save a great deal of time by putting electronic technology to work much earlier in the production process...
...call again in half an hour. It will continue this all day, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, and also Saturday mornings. When the delinquent finally answers, the computer will switch the call to a Treasury agent, and at the same time the agent's video screen will light up with all the details of the taxpayer's derelictions. "This will drastically increase the number of accounts that a revenue agent can contact," says Dean Morrow, acting assistant IRS commissioner for computer services. "And every time a taxpayer is talked to, his chances of paying...
...Mail." The intrepid Post Office inspectors relied not only on their wits and their knowledge of human nature, but on the most up-to-date technology available. Hidden in a "lookout gallery" high above the floor where the hapless cookie-embezzlers were feasting, the inspectors used binoculars and video cameras to obtain the evidence that would send Ferguson and Wilson up the river...