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This fall at Eliot House, however, nuisance turned to hardship when students increased not to attach wall decorations with tape, found that their renovated rooms lacked the mouldings along the ceilings from which students traditionally hang posters and paintings...
Would 3M's experiments help improve some of its products? Could future space research yield a thinner, tougher Scotch tape? Perhaps. The only thing that 3M knows for certain is that the promise of manufacturing in space is enormous. So great is it, says Christopher Podsiadly, director of 3M's science research lab, that "we have to keep changing our expectations...
Usually, the machines are more banal than that. They do still make people uncomfortable, although that is passing with familiarity. Their use has become so widespread that callers no longer feel quite so much the instant of stage fright. Still, the tape on the end of the line, expectantly unreeling, silent as a director awaiting the audition, does intimidate. The caller feels ambushed, like one who has suddenly learned he is being bugged. He becomes more ... responsible for his words. They are not going to vanish into air. They can be replayed again and again, like the videotape...
...station still aired mainly classical music, but also played jazz, opera, and newly popular folk music. WHRB also concentrated on its news programs, just at a time when inexpensive portable tape recorders were being introduced. For the first time, reporters could play tapes of events or interviews in addition to describing what had occurred...
...absolute security for their data are responsible for the development of a curious new breed of companies known as disaster recovery specialists. With names like Phoenix Systems Comdisco Disaster Recovery Systems and The Iron Mountain Group these firms operate heavily guarded bunkers and caves across the country where magnetic tape can be stored safe from fire, flood or theft. For fees that run to more than $10,000 each month these and similar companies have "hot sites" where computers compatible with your own hum day and night--standing by in the case of an emergency. For smaller fees "shells" empty...