Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...built a home, then a larger one ten years ago. His 4.4-acre farm is about twice the average acreage here, and his grapes, apples, peaches and melons have done well. The eldest son, Isamu, had just installed a new, promising method for improving grape production with vinyl tents...
...software, a computer is only an inarticulate mass of electronic parts. Says David Sturtevant of the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations: "The computer alone is as dumb as a stump. It won't even keep beer cold." Software, the programs that come in cartridges or on floppy vinyl discs, instructs the machine to carry out the commands given to it. Customers are willing to spend heavily to get the right software. Industry experts estimate that for every $1,000 consumers invest in computer hardware, they pay out another $300 on software during the first year after they...
...Wars came out immediately fell in love with it, dragging parents and friends to see it for the fifth and sixth times. The special effects were then amazingly original. We plastered our walls with Star Wars posters, traded Star Wars cards, and bought the famous Star Wars theme on vinyl. When we became sophisticated 16-year-olds in time for the second installment. The Empire Strikes Back inevitably failed to match the excitement and originality of the first: the plot seemed uninspiring, the creatures the same as before, and the actors were still skittering around on the surface of their...
...story, 3,000-lb. inflatable Kong (at 84 ft., more than 30 ft. taller than the original) was hoisted a quarter-mile in the air to his old haunt atop the Empire State. Even without the menacing biplanes, Kong fared poorly, with tangled cables and tears in his heavy vinyl-coated nylon skin. But after a week of deflating mishaps, the balloon's builders, who plan to take the ape on tour this year, finally got the weather and mild winds they had prayed for. And lo, as blowers pumped air through Kong's toes, the creature filled...
Until digital, record technology had not changed much in principle since the Edison cylinder. On conventional LPs, called analog recordings, images of sound waves picked up by a microphone are traced into vinyl grooves; a kind of aural photograph is "developed" when a stylus retraces the grooves and re-creates the sonic vibrations. Digital recordings are akin to the computer-assisted cameras used in space, which translate images into a series of binary numbers that are later reassembled into pictures back on earth. In digital recording a computer takes 44,000 impressions of sound per sec. and assigns each...