Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rack spartan. In Florida, the Orlando Factory Outlet Mall, which opened last year on the road between the city and Walt Disney World, offers, in addition to the usual stores, an antique-costume portrait center, a time-share condominium sales office, a Pac-N-Send mailing service and a video-game room. Traditional retailers hope that the factory outlets will fade away with the return of better economic times. Perhaps, but in the meantime, factory outlets will continue to be today's fashion...
ATARI. The king of video games, Atari is now offering home-computer buyers $60 worth of discounts on its extensive library of entertainment and educational programs. The Atari 400 model sells for less than $300. Atari officials like to point out that their computers also play many of the most popular video games, including Pac-Man, Asteroids and Space Invaders. Atari has about 17% of the inexpensive-computer market...
...boom for personal computers this Christmas season may mean doom for last year's Christmas hit: the video-game machine. Those generally sell for between $125 and $300, but only play games. A small computer has a vast array of other uses. Says Benjamin Rosen, publisher of a widely read industry newsletter: "This is probably the end of the line for straight video games." Arnold Brown, president of the New York consulting firm of Weiner, Edrich, Brown Inc., thinks the game machines could become a consolation prize this Christmas season. Says he: "Some consumers are going to have...
When French Dance Student Isabelle Michalowski, 17, wants to find a local nightspot that is still open during the summer vacation, she lets her fingers do the walking-not through the Yellow Pages, but across the keyboard of a computer console. Using the small video terminal that has been provided by the state-owned French telephone company, she punches a few keys and then taps out the words DISCOS-RENNES. Seconds later the names, addresses and telephone numbers flash on the screen. She then hits another button and an illustrated advertisement appears on the screen. It reads...
Once the computer has gone in the front door as an electronic phone book, the French have all sorts of other plans for it. The same video console can be used for many services, from remote-control banking to electronic mail to fingertip shopping. The French are experimenting with just about every conceivable application. In a test program in three suburbs of Paris, 2,500 terminals have been installed that permit people to check airline schedules or place orders with mail-order catalogues using the computer...