Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DBASE, he simply types in db at the A prompt. This instructs the computer to execute all of the commands in the file DB.BAT stored on disk. Upon looking at the Hacker's DB.BAT file, the IBM compatible then knows to do the following things. Load in Sidekick (a handy calculator/notepad utility), create a ramdisk, activate a print spooling utility, switch to the Dbase subdirectory of the hard disk and start the DBASE program running...
Setting up batch files requires typing all of the commands that the computer will execute into an ASCII file with the extension .bat. This can be done with an editor such as EDLIN (it comes with MS-DOS, see manual for instructions) or the SIDEKICK notepad...
Seniors and juniors may have a hard time getting into Science A-17, "The Astronomical Perspecive," since Professor Owen Gingerich said he would give preference to sophomores and freshmen in the class's lottery. But everyone can get into the groove of the music Gingerich and his sidekick, Lecturer in Astronomy David Latham, play before and after class...
...Stephen Jay Gould and his quest to explain the history of the world--and his role in it--appear under the chapter heading Science B-16. Walter J. Kaiser '54 was supposed to resume his biennial journey through Elizabethan England yesterday accompanied by his ne'er-do-well sidekick Robert Watson, in an adventure entitled Literature and Arts A-40, "Shakespeare." Or so Courses of Instruction led the unwary reader to believe. But Watson was not granted tenure by the University and will henceforth be frolicking in another forest...
...help, however, comes from a superb ensemble cast, especially Christie, Michael Countryman as Jackson, Arnie Mazer as the loutish Swede Risberg and John A. O'Hern as the quietly sodden Fred McMullin. The roles could easily resemble the agglomeration familiar from war movies: a doomed innocent, a hot-tempered sidekick, a misfit willing to do anything to fit in. But they enact their stories so convincingly that one cannot help caring about what happened to these boys of summer some 67 summers...