Word: processor
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...took to requesting QSL cards in a fairly efficient way. I set up my word processor so that I could send a form letter to any station I wanted. "Dear Radio Brasilia," I would write. "I have been listening to your station recently and I very much enjoy the high quality of your programming. I recently heard a broadcast at 0800 hours...
Miller's switches became the building blocks for Huang's optical processor, which took five years to develop. His team finished construction around Christmas but did not get the machine to work until last month. The device is far cruder than even the most basic computers: it has no permanent memory, and the only function it can perform is counting simple numbers. Just a small fraction of the thousands of switches are connected. Nonetheless, Huang insists, the machine proves that his principle works. He thinks computer makers will soon replace wiring inside their machines with optical circuits...
...read about a SeniorNet class in Dallas. She signed up and made an important discovery. "I wasn't sick," she says. "I was just bored to death." Osborne quickly mastered basic computer skills and went on to study word processing at a local community college. "She bought a word processor and is now writing the history of her life," says Florence Wetzig, 69, a former beauty-salon operator who taught Osborne how to compute. "She has said to me many times that I saved her life...
...only computer skill you need to get through college is how to work a word processor," Carr said...