Word: disks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 140 people paid $12.50 to aid Richard Fogarty, who was hurt on his way home from work on July 10, when his moped was hit by a car in Central Square. Of the 140 guests, 78 attended the dance, which featured a raffle, a disk jockey, and a four-piece band...
...When Mitch Kapor, 36, the computer-software wunderkind, resigned as chairman of Lotus Development Corp. last year, he said he was leaving to "explore other endeavors." So what has the former disk jockey and transcendental- meditation instructor come up with for an encore? Opening a delicatessen only a matzoh ball's throw from Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. "I see it as a social service," says Brooklyn-born Kapor. "The deli is for anyone who complains about not being able to find a decent pastrami sandwich in Boston...
...response, IBM decided to make its Personal System/2 computers strikingly different from its original PCs. It did: the new models are more powerful and versatile. Their software, which will not run on the old machines, comes on 3.5-in. hard- case diskettes instead of the 5.25-in. floppy disk that had been IBM's standard...
...reach to protest the "stale" sounds offered by licensed New York stations. The pirate broadcasts stopped last week, after four days, when Coast Guardsmen and FCC agents, citing an . international treaty prohibiting broadcasts aboard ships outside national territories, boarded the Sarah and arrested Chief Engineer Alan Weiner and Disk Jockey Ivan Rothstein. The two were released pending a hearing on charges of conspiring to impede the FCC. In the meantime, station WNYG-AM on Long Island is giving the rock-'n'-roll pirates some time on terra firma and allowing them a test 16-hour broadcast this week...
...American workplace. Robots perform more than 98% of the spot welding on Ford's highly successful Taurus and Sable cars. At Doehler-Jarvis, a major Ohio metal fabricator, robots load and unload die-casting machines, trim parts and ladle molten metal. At IBM factories across the country, robots insert disk drives into personal computers and snap keys onto electronic typewriter keyboards. At a General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth, one robot drills 550 holes in the vertical tail fins of an F-16 fighter in three hours. It used to take three workers eight hours to do the same...