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Countless computers from Cambridge to M.I.T. to Caltech have been programmed to play Life, sometimes to the chagrin of those in charge of the costly machines. Martin Gardner tells of one computer specialist who has a special panic button under his desk: whenever a supervisor comes into the room, the specialist can wipe the display screen clean; later, after the supervisor has left, the computer can reach into its memory and pick up the game exactly where it left off. Nor are Americans or Britons the only ones addicted. Gardner has gotten inquiries about Life from...
...depression of a tape recorder's "record" button on at least five different occasions caused the 18-minute gap in one of the subpoenaed Watergate tapes, technical experts testified yesterday at a court hearing before District Court Judge John J. Sirica...
...experts made their findings in part from marks on the magnetic tape showing that both the record button and any one of four other buttons had been pushed...
...indication of how more conservative Vermonters are feeling about the President these days came at that Republican dinner in Montpelier. For laughs-and there were plenty-they auctioned off a 1972 Nixon-Agnew button. It fetched only...
...limbic system, the hippocampus, is indisputably vital to memory. Patients whose hippocampi have been destroyed or partially removed cannot recall new information. Dr. Robert Livingston of the University of California at San Diego postulates that the structure plays the same role in memory as the "now store" button does on a computer, determining whether a particular bit of information is to be stored or discarded...