Word: users
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dubbed the Manhattan Project during 15 years of development, SelectaVision works much like a phonograph. A diamond needle picks up video and audio signals from the tiny grooves of a silvery plastic disc whirling at 450 r.p.m. To operate the machine, which is connected to a TV set, the user simply inserts a disc and flips a lever...
Ralph: You mean sex is not just a user-friendly technology? Tell me more...
...American Telephone & Telegraph, which operates the long-distance lines that used to be part of the Bell system. The rest have been put out by competitors like MCI. Each AT&T card is supposed to be protected from abuse by a four-digit personal identification number that only the user and the company know. Someone using the card must give both his phone and the identification numbers. But anyone who finds or steals a card, or overhears the numbers being read to an operator, can make illegal calls...
Most experts call the model extremely easy to operate ("user friendly"), very well-priced, and highly powerful...
Instead of entering words to command the computer, the user chooses from a menu of picture and selects one by pressing the mouse...