The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, April 25, 1980, Image 8

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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 ,||
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sroom and will work harder "
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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.
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The 1949 communist revolution
cut China’s contemporary painters
off from the mainstream of world art.
As in the Soviet Union, they were
told to serve the socialist state. They
painted representational paintings of
great moments in Chinese commun
ist history.
However, a lot of them quietly
kept on painting things that in
terested them. Since the end of Chi
na’s 1966-76 cultural revolution and
the death of Mao Tse-tung, it has
become acceptable for them to bring
out works previously unacceptable.
The art works range from varia
tions on traditional Chinese art to
street scenes of modem Chinese life.
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
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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
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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
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transportation and other factors.
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house for $5 for 40 pounds and out of consumer. Both California and Flor-
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Oranges, be
cause a record 64.3 million cartons of
navels are expected this year, will be
a good buy for consumers, says Russ
Hanlin, president of Sunkist.
Hanlin says most of Sunkist’s
6,500 members in California and Ari
zona have had excellent crops on this
year-around commodity.
RING DMCE PHOTOS
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12:00 NOON, SAT., APRIL 26
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PHOTO PACKAGE TICKETS NOW ON SALE
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Save $1.00 by buying picture ticket in advance
University Studio
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had a depressing effect on
very much to the benefit of thee
sumer, but not to the advantage |
the farmer.”
This year, the winter lemons
ly was smaller than normal,!
lemons were expensive. The!
for the summer, however, isi
pected to be excellent, so prices*
drop.
Oil profits up|
for 5 firms
United Press International
Marathon Oil Co., the 16thl _
U.S. oil company, Thursday!
ported its first-quarter profits rose3|
percent and attributed the ga
higher domestic crude prices.
Five of the nation’s biggei
companies, which benefited
gradual decontrol of U.S.
prices before the windfall profits a
took effect March 1, announcedli
ty first-quarter earnings gains <
this week.
Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) postecj
169 percent profit increase, En
Corp. a 101 percent rise and Ter
Inc. a 96 percent jump.
Occidental Petroleum had a,
percent surge, but a substantialP
of the increase came from the!
quidation of silver contracts bet
the metal plummeted in value
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