0 I Chapter News • (See also Page 13} Information JAPAN CHAPTER wins the Editor's Prize this month for B. A second meeting chaired by Chuji Sujuki, SID content and humor. On July 23 this chapter had two Chapter Committeeman was attended by 14 SID meetings at the Sharp Corporation offices in Tokyo as members and 15 non-members. This meeting was follows: primarily for yo ung engineers and research scientists. A. Meeting chaired by lwao Ohishi, Chai rman of SID Topics discussed included: Display Japan Chapter and Masao Sugimoto, Vice-Chairman, BCEE Group, IEEE Tokyo Chapter, attended by 29 SID * Topics i n author interviews at the 1981 SID members and 29 non-members. The program was as symposium j The Official Journal of t he Society For Information D isplay NOVEM BER, 1981 follows: * Sinclair's f lat CRTs * Application of POPs v * Cost down of Flat Panel Displays 1. Report on the 1981 SID International Symposium * Kanji Displays and Human Fa ctors General Review Koh-ichi Miyaji, * Penetration CRTs Shibaura Institute of Technology 1 .2 Session VII Human Factors * Eurodisplay '81 and Japan Display '83 Hideo Kusaka, NHK Broadcasting Science Research Labs., Tokyo 1.3 Session X Color CATs Humor: Ryuichi Kaneko, Japan Chapter Secretary, sent CATs your Editor a package of material which arrived just too Osamu Takeuchi, Sony Corp., Tokyo 1.4 Session IX Passive Displays I late for our September/ October issue. But don't ever let Noboru Kaneko, Daini Seikosha anyone tell you that our Japanese friends lack a sense of Co., Ltd., Tokyo humor. Quoting Kaneko: As to Meet ing B, the chairman, 1 .5 Session XI Passive Displays II Dr. Suzuki, "seemed to be greatly annoyed because he Kyozo Ide, Research & Development Center could not cut the discussion when t he closing tiJ)le of Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki Co., Ltd. Tokyo 1.6 Session IV Hard Copy the meeting had already passed several tens of minutes VIII Non-Impact Printing and Recording before." Koichiro Ishikawa, Added Secretary Kaneko in his own handwriting in Yokosuka Electrical Communication Lab., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone English (who among American SID members writes in Public Corp., Yokosuka Japanese?): 1.7 Session XIII Panel and Large Screen Displays "Attendance paid Y500 each (about $2) for their Koichiro Kurahashi, coffee and cake. I t hink it will be, probably, very difficult M itsubishi Electric Corp., Amagasaki 1.8 Session XIV Graphics and Image Processing t o surpass dainty dishes of Minneapolis/ St. Paul XVI Display Systems Chapter." Yoshizo Hagino, Japan Rad io Co., Ltd. Remember Vern Born's picture of the magnificent 1.9 Session XV Plasma Displays spread at one of t he M/ SP Chapter meetings, appearing Shizuo Andoh, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Lobe on a recent back cover of your Journal? 2. Report on the other Conferences 2.1 Electronic Material Conference, Akio Sasaki, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto 2.2 Gordon Conference, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo (Chapter News continued on page 13} NEW IBM PERSONAL COMPUTER, announced three kilobyt es per dr ive. The associated matrix printe r months ago, is designed for home, business, and operates at 80 characters/ second w ith bid irect iona l scientific use. Standard features include: keyboard for printing on continous feed, multi part paper. Tw elve type data and text entry; j ack for cassette attachment; five styles are available, and formats include 40, 66, 80, or expansion slots for additional memory and display, 132 characters per line. INFORMATION DISPLAY printer, communications and game adapters; speaker A n additional option provides communications: a n NOVEMBER 1981 Non-Profit Organization for musical programming; power-on automatic se lf-test asynchronous line tying into data bases, other com­ of system components; BASIC language interpreter, puters, laboratory or industrial instrume nts, or other SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY U.S. Po stage Paid products using an RS -232C asynchronous adaptor. For Permit No. 29744 16K memory. 654 NORTH SEPULVEDA BOULEVARD The keyboard has 83 keys for data and text e ntry, games, user-supplied joy st icks and paddles may be Los Ange les, Ca. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90049 including 10 for numeric entry and c ursor control, and connected to the system. 1 0 keys for scrolling,.editing, and other special functions. Th is new IBM minicomputer has a cycle time of 410 Access is provided for 256 A SCII and special characters. ns for main storage, and 250 ns access time. 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