Word: desktop
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...international money transfer department of New York's Citibank, 50 people sitting before desktop computer terminals silently tap away at coded keyboards and thereby handle the work that it took 430 people to perform...
Smaller firms that lack large research departments often use desktop computers to turn a stack of complex statistics into easy-to-read charts. Rosen Research, a Manhattan firm that studies the electronics industry, recently used its Apple II personal computer for such a job. The cost: 40? for a graphic illustration, compared with $80 each when prepared by a professional designer...
...addition to such giants as IBM, Xerox and Honeywell, the field is filling up with a host of newcomers. flush with billions in oil profits, Exxon Corp. has entered the market with its new unit, Exxon Office Systems Co., which is manufacturing and selling a range of desktop word processing devices. The company's QWIP transceiver sends and receives over regular telephone lines facsimile reproductions of charts, graphs, text or just about anything else that can be put on a page...
...same year the company's reputation began to grow when it introduced one of the first desktop electronic calculators. But eight years later Texas Instruments began selling hand-held machines made with silicon chips and stole the market. Wang then quickly shifted his company's efforts into large-scale office electronics. In 1972 the company entered the word processor market, and soon introduced the television-like screen that nearly all electronic word processing equipment now uses for displaying text. The company at present has 35% of the world market...