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Quincy House: Like Currier's. Quincy's facilities were designed along with the House and set in a broad thoroughfare, with room for tables, vending machines, and video games. This grill, along with Currier's is probably the liveliest of all. Students not clustered around the built-in counter are often immersed in a game of foosball across the room. A color TV perched bar-style in the corner above the counter is the focal point for those waiting for their food...
...thank his ten-year-old daughter Jennifer for the idea for his new camera. Several years ago, when he took a snapshot of Jeffie, she demanded to know why she couldn't have a print right away. That got him thinking about a camera that would have a "built-in darkroom," and he developed one that printed 3 by 5 photos that were simply peeled off the negative...
...sign that the pace of the past two years will continue will be the arrival of a home computer, which IBM originally code-named "peanut." This will sell for about $700 and could reach stores in late fall. The machine, fully compatible with the PC, will come with a built-in disc drive and cartridge slot for software. "It will offer the best performance on the market for its price," asserts Clive Smith, a computer watcher with the Yankee Group, a Cambridge, Mass., research firm...
Lately, however, there have been signs that the market may be approaching saturation. Consumers are beginning to complain that without expensive printers and disc drives, many of the low-priced machines are little more than video-game players with built-in keyboards. Talmis Inc., an Oak Park, Ill., market research firm, estimates that small computers have been selling at a monthly rate of 275,000, but manufacturers have been shipping more than 450,000 a month...
Consumers like the convenience of aseptics. Working mothers can easily stock up on milk and juices without worrying about spoilage. Tossed in the freezer the night before, the packages are still cold when they are pulled out at school for lunch. Children like the space-age packaging, the built-in straws and, most of all, the ear-splitting noise the empty boxes make when stomped. Says Ralph Graves, vice president of California's Real Fresh: "After the container's empty, kids blow it up and jump on it. It goes off like a 108-mm howitzer...