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Page 12/The Battalion/Monday, November 21,1983 ( by Paul Dirmeyer ft: sa ita T TRUCK OWNERS' (a “shop&lot” just for you) We buy, sell, trade, and offer complete service on your pick-up including: •4 wheel drive -brakes •front end alignment -overhauls •transmissions -specialty work “one day service on most repairs” Pickups>Plus 512 W. Carson (across from Army Reserve) (409)775-6708 N atowitz continued from page 1 A second cyclotron is being built on campus that will double the research capabilities already available here, Natowitz said. It will be connected to the existing cyclotron to form a super con ducting accelerator, he said. It will then be one of the fastest accelerators in the world, he said. Work on the expansion is expected to continue until late 1985. While in France, Natowitz lec tured at French universities in the cities of Lyon, Caen and Orsay. He also spent a week at the National Nuclear Lab in Sarclay. The visiting researchers had use of the facility for one week only, so they worked around the clock for the entire week, he said. Natowitz said they were trying to determine the forces necessary to hold the nucleus, or dense core, of an atom together. continued from page 1 But IBM took sudden control of more than 26 percent of the market share in less than two years with their IBM Personal Computer. Demand for the pro duct is so immense that IBM can’t make them fast enough, and experts predict the com pany will control more than 50 percent of the world market for personal computers by 1985. In addition to this single com- pany’s sudden dominance, Forbes magazine said the supply of computing power is outrun ning demand. Computers are getting faster and more efficient, but reasons for using them aren’t keeping up with the technology, so the market is needing less and less computer power to get the job done. “As a result,” Business Week says, “the personal computer market is already taking on many of the characteristics of a mature industry. It is being dominated by a few large sup pliers, and marketing and distri bution skills are becoming more important than the latest tech nology.” Bart Childs, a computer sci ence professor here, said home computers are at a common level of technical capabilities. Each of the various manufac turers has a particular area of expertise their equipment is more adapted to, Childs said, and he was quick to point out that he thinks Texas Instru ments does have the best set of educational systems for the home. “In general there is not a bad computer, but there is a whole lot of bad misuse of computers,” said Childs, adding that it is gen erally the way a computer is used — or misused — that causes problems. This overall similanti equipment forces company use something other product’s capabilities to sales. “Selling computers tod} essentially a marketing [ says Jerry Johns, marlti communications director! Texas Instruments. And the experts agree4 |yg |S|c is IBM who is setting the® for the game. “You have to com pete a? IBM,” says Arthur Selkotti the New York-based advert agency Penchina, Seiko, “The rest of the pack do matter.” Johns said the first prior his company’s marketing was to distinguish Tlfroml! and grasp a solid porliono: market, a tough orderinlig IBM’s marketingsuperiohii Texas A&M probably will bring French scientists here next year for more research, Nato witz said. In the meantime, he is going to Heidelberg, West Ger many, in February for another series of experiments, and then to France to discuss the results of his recent work there. Computer continued from page 1 “Kids who don’t have $50 to $100 to spend will be at an even greater disadvantage,” Ash said. “The gap between the quality of education for wealthy kids and poor kids will widen.” Dennis Landrum, store man ager of Computerland in Col lege Station, thinks the televi- V* CASA CHAPULTEPEC 775-6052 1315 South College Noon and Dinner Specials$2.99 THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL Burrito Dinner or Combination Burrito comes with Red Sauce & Cheese Rice and Beans w/sour cream $3.45 Sign up now through November 25th at any Culpepper Plaza business to win a Round Trip Flight Home for the Holidays Drawing November 26th Pan Pizza’s “In” At Pizza Inn! If you’re looking for a panful of the best deep dish pizza you’ll ever taste, try our new Pan Pizza! We could go on forever describing it’s great flavor, but we’ve picked some choice words that say it all... 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Texas Ave 846-6164 846-8749 I— For pizza out it’s Pizza Inri. —J s;ion commercials are a discredit to the industry. “Personally, I think those commercials are terrible. Scare tactics are not a good way to sell anything. If he (a student) is going to fail out, a computer won’t help.” However, Landrum admits that the commercials do have an effect on consumer buying habits. “A lot of people react to that (scare tactics),” Landrum said. “Consumers now are consider ing systems that can do more. They want a computer for bookeeping, word processing and that their children can use. A greater number of features helps justify the expense of buying a home computer.” Consumers now are waiting longer before buying home computers because prices are dropping and the computers are just getting better. Computer use in ediK lias become so important ; state law now requiresacot i ter literacy course to betaf \ junior and senior high si ( House bill 246, passedinli requires uniform currict j for state schools which ind. p an int roductory compi k course. Implementation of required computer coursei ginning to haveaneffectb Adrien Drouilhet III, cipal of A&M Junior I School, in College Station, that his school is taking step conform with the slate rq meats. “We’re shootingfot (1984) implementation ol computer literacy course.' Implementing the stale quirements at A&M Jin High will mean addingatead with computer knowledge purchasing about eight tional computers, Droi said. Regents continued from page 1 The committee also approved a preliminary design for the Advanced Ocean Drill ing Program facility — one of the first research park tenants. The building will be a research center equipped with refriger ated storage space for ocean floor samples collected by re searchers on a deep-sea drilling ship. The program is funded by the National Science Founda tion with the understanding that the University System will pro vide facilities. The program will have a regular 130 member staff in addition to visiting resear chers. The committee approved the plan for development of the first section of the research park, bounded by Disposal Plant Road on the south. In other business, the com mittee approved the prelimin ary design for the Prairie View A&M University All Faiths Chapel. The $595,000 structure will seat 317 upon completion. A preliminary plan for a $6 million poultry science center also was approved. The 60-acre center will house the headquar ters of Texas A&M poultry sci ence operations and will have complete judging facilities. A tentative design for $1.5 million intramural playing fields was presented to the committee. The plan included four softball fields, eight football fields and a driving range with 60 tee sta tions. The intramural fields will be an extension of Penberthfl tramural Center and areti lively scheduled for cornel in September 1985. appropriation for the f sign was approved by theci mitiee. All committee recommel lions will he up for finalap» al by the board Tuesday. 11 .,. <R v.u..... u,JN Tcxa ar-old t'lice th; 'K pcop their v< be Deni told a s Chancellor Arthur Halt told the committee foracadi campuses that he and o: administrators are concei with overcrowding in the lege of Engineering. He overcrowding of labs andd is causing “a dbteriorationiiM 1 ^^' 1 ' A delivery of education." Wiring tl Dr. Cordon Eaton, pro*P s and vice president for acaejt' 11 jewe affairs, said the number off dents enrolled in eachdisrif® t ' Mcril causes a lack of hands-onex| ence because of limited space. 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