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Page 10 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 25, I960 Home computers Industry enjoys phenomenal growth in sales potential uses United Press International NEW YORK — Within a few years it could be difficult to make a living unless you can work at a cathode ray video display terminal and color graphic home computers could give tomorrow’s workforce a head start. Many parents are willing to pay from $450 to $2,000 for a free standing computer with a video dis play terminal (also called a CRT) and keyboard to be used in the home, said Peter J. Cumin, president of Intelligent Systems Corp. of Atlanta. ISC makes small computers for business and a series of Compucolor household computers. “There are fewer than a dozen companies making household com puters with standard-size display terminals,” Cumin said. “Perhaps five have substantial sales, but the sales gains of the successful com panies are phenomenal — up to 200 percent a year.” ISC said it has an estimated 28 percent market share. The firm’s sales have grown from $60,000 in 1975 to $4 million in 1978 and an estimated $15 million for fiscal 1979. “Taking a guess, I would say over all industry sales could reach $500 million a year,” Cumin said. While the home computer is not an item that’s desperately needed, it’s no mere toy or status symbol either, Cumin said. Its potential for life enrichment and for learning is enormous and just starting to be real ized. Some companies selling home computers emphasize their useful ness for household and small busi ness accounting. Compucolor does that too, but Cumin, who came to ISC recently after 23 years with In ternational Business Machines Corp., said that is being stressed too much. More emphasis should be put on the level of sophisticated cultural, educational and recreational pur suits the home computer gives the family, he said. The home computer can familia rize children as young as six with the basic principles of the computer and VDT, which are fast becoming both the communicating and calculating tool of commerce, industry, science, education and even the arts,” he said. In addition it is a fascinating game playing device. This is particularly true of the color display terminals, which can be used not only to play a wide variety of programmed games but for creative artistic designs. Cumin said he discovered recent ly by accident that the home compu ter can offer real help to children who don’t take readily to reading or to drawing with their hands. “The dyslexic child who can’t draw a cube or write figures or letters on the blackboard can accurately punch keys and do as well as the normal child on the home computer’s VDT,” he said. Children who don’t have a learn ing disability but are slow in the clas sroom may do much better on the home computer tube, Cumin said, because they can proceed at their own speed. The youngster feels freer to exercise his or her ]ni ,|| than would be the cas e inT* sroom and will work harder " As a learning machine, C lor can teach languages jcj mathematics and elementary It will balance your checkbook with your income tax keep u !, the mortgage and tax payj And it can be used to com, recipe for a dish for four to d*! quantities to serve nine or : ★ + ♦ * * ♦ * * * * * ★ ¥ CENTUCr SINeERS Chinese modern art to be brought to America for sale by dealers CCNCIECT ★ ★ ★ ★ .★ ★ ★ .★ ★ * ♦ »•** *'■**'••*• *: *.•' **•■**•■;'**•■*'*,*; 25 * ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ * United Press International PEKING — Somewhere, China might have a modem artist as good as Pablo Picasso or Marc Chagall. If so, a smart art dealer might make a bundle by introducing his pictures into the United States and Europe. With that in mind, a small trading company based in Vermont has made a deal to take between 500 and 600 modem Chinese oil and water- color works, painted since the 1920s, to the United States. “The paintings we have looked at range from absolutely terrible to ex tremely good, and few people out side China have ever seen any of them,” says Con Hogan executive vice president of International Coins and Currency Inc., of Montpelier, Vt. Hogan is in China as the head of a five-man team of traders and art ex perts. They are dealing with China’s Arts and Crafts Corporation, which manages the sale of art goods over seas. with a . salute : to richard rodqers 8: oo P-rn. R U D D E R ******** TICKETS $2.00 Pop 1 SHOW; TUMES* CONTEMPORARY tlassital nui sic r* * * * + ATTENTION!!!!!! IF YOU HAVEN’T PICKED UP YOUR 1979 AGGIE- LAND, BE SURE TO DO SO BEFORE YOU LEAVE HERE, ROOM 216 REED MCDONALD BLDG., MON DAY - FRIDAY, 8 A.M.-5 P.M. 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The artists’ names certainly are not household words in the West. But a few, such as Wu Zoren and Li Keran, were known to overseas Chinese before the 1949 revolution. Both are now in their 70s and are teachers retired from the Peking Art Academy. Even if their paintings sefluj West, the Chinese artists don'tst to get as rich as Picasso, who £_ multimillionaire. The America^] dealing with the Arts and CrafoG poration, not individual artists i are generally salaried workm] China. “I don’t know if the artists nl] any of the money, but we can i them international recognition, j sure of that,” Hogan says. Orange prices to drop, record crop expected I || Injiml Gna| liec I yet) Jll Iteloi Po jlay I to nal | s the| | on," than i troUe imprc said, periir Rl that there are marketing, advertising and packing expenses. “So, after the owners pick and haul, which is the better part of a dollar for 40 pounds, there’s about $2.50 of that amount left.” Hanlin said the grower’s return on the cost at the packing house of the 40 pounds of oranges may be 35 to 40 percent before the grower’s cost. Hanlin said growers’ profits vary, Then, he said, the cost amount of depending on where they are, and the oranges is doubled by the tifne it their own costs. gets to the irtarkfet ihelVbS bfefcadid ! of transportation and other factors. “Say they are selling at the packing “s 0 40 pounds would be $ 10 to a house for $5 for 40 pounds and out of consumer. 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