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...experts think such delays have contributed to the current computer-industry sales slump. Says Skip Bushee, director of research for Silicon Valley's InfoCorp: "Without seeing the standard from IBM, the industry was confused. This should enhance sales for everyone." The market for computer-network gear is expected to zoom from the current $300 million annually to as much as $6 billion by the end of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting in Touch with One Another | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...fashioned to protect a clutch of strobe lights, side-scanning sonar devices and an array of cameras from marine flotsam. The entire contraption is tied umbilically to the mother ship by a thick steel cable. When sonar patterns signal an interesting feature, the video cameras can be commanded to zoom in on the object. The images they pick up are relayed instantaneously through the cable to computers and video screens in the ship above, providing scientists with an Argo's-eye view of the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Argo's Golden Feat | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...rehabilitation got under way. In recent years, through books and smaller exhibits, his stock has risen further. The Chicago show, which travels in December to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, caps the long effort to re store his fame. Today, at 90, Kertesz still aims a zoom lens from the balcony of his Manhattan apartment, and he was in Chicago to be toasted at his exhibition's opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Vindication of an Old Master | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...market one year ago, took off faster than any other personal computer since the launch of IBM's PC in 1981. Apple so far has sold more than 275,000 Macintoshes. The company, the symbol of U.S. entrepreneurial innovation, saw profits in the first quarter of fiscal 1985 zoom to $46.1 million, an eightfold gain from the same period in 1984. Yet Macintosh (basic price: $2,195) and its maker have a serious handicap. Many Macintosh buyers have been Apple's characteristic flannel-shirt clientele--students, hackers and do-it-yourselfers--who make up only one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple Blossoms | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...owner of Via Dolce Confectioners in suburban Los Angeles, which makes Robin Rose ice cream. Her experience shows how people's views are shaped by the price hikes that affect them. Rose watched the wild black raspberries that give tang to her bestselling raspberry chocolate truffle flavor zoom from $31 per gal. to $107.50 per gal. after last year's harsh winter nearly destroyed the crop. To recover the extra cost, she tacks a 25? surcharge onto each scoop of the ice cream. Says Rose, a graduate of the University of Chicago Business School and a former student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sticker Shock Never Stops | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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