European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes Friday. January 3,1986 the desire for bands is maddening by Russell Baker Long Island on an Island a electronically innocent that it has but one television station and less than 20 hours of programming per week i am Assem bling my own word processing system. La will make writing far far simpler than it is with the Quill pct and Piir Emmertt system that has burdened me these 30 years past. The Man who supplies my quills said i was mad. I replied mind you soy a nov they said Caesar was mad they said Genghis Khan was mad. And a Poicon was surely the maddest of them thai s Eduardo Ciannelli s great speech in he 1939 Oun ii Din " said the Quill retailer and it does t apply in he present Case because Ciannilli merely in tended to wipe out she British Empire White you intend to assemble your own word processing system with no help except he manufacturers manuals which Are written in japanese or worse in american engineers English against the British Ciannilli had a Chance. You on the Cher a Ltd arc mad.1 that Windy instil did not Send me stalking from the Quill shop announcing 1 would never return. And so i have not had to Grove cach time i be been Back for fresh quills these past five months. Yes. Of course the Loil required to make writing so simple is very very complicated. Still i make n Little Progress every month. Laic yesterday for example after six weeks of nearly round the clock despair i achieved interface with my Daisy wheel Printer an pm remly sub lie machine which prints . My Quill merchant had never heard of . Imagine hat. I had to explain that it was a japanese term mean ing characters per the poor Boob. With his Quill pens he was really in another Century. Why do you want to write characters per Gerandt he asked. I thought you wanted to write Hack journal ism not huge novels packed with character like Dickens Island rustles must have their Little joke. How Many characters could Dickens write per second if he lived today and wrote on your machine hundreds i said because to Tell the truth keep forgetting my Printer s . Capacity. The number 7,800 keeps wanting to Bounce off my Tongue but thai May be the number of bands in my Modem. I Haven t tried for interface with the Modem yet but a klan at the manual told me it was absolute to packet with bands. No that glance did t Tell me what a baud is but 1 sure know what a Modem is achieve interlace with your Modem and you can automatically phone pub Lishers All Over the world and pour your great novels into 1 heir printers. Unfortunately the Modem manual opens with a warn ing before plunging into the baffling electronic night Mare involved in getting this Modem to work notify your Telephone company what you arc doing As your work May result in destroying your Lucal phone system thus requiring the phone company 10 recover massive repair costs by hauling you through he that cooled my Modem Zeal temporarily. It s there in he Corner under that stack of Parchment patiently re St mining its zillions of eager Little bands. And what s the hurry when the system is finished writing will be so simple that i can take a year off to recover then have the Printer use its copious . Capacity to Knock off a Dick Civian Best seller in a week or two. The Printer May be working by late summer. The interface achieved yesterday alas was not the Triumph it seemed when 1 called in the Quill dealer for celebratory Champagne. It refuses to write anything except the cock Brown Fox jumped Over the Engineer s incomprehensible English sentences,"1 the Quill Marc Lent Corr City observed. Make it write it was the Best of limes it was the worst of times."1 he knows How to Wisl the knife that Quill Salesman. Achieving interface i had to Tell him was not the same thing As configuring. For the past several midnights i have been deep in the manuals on the Art of configuring. All begin with the line first apply to a Gold japanese school of hah if that Quill peddle caught me doing that he d never Slop laughing. J Shal go it alone even though when def Ninfi special Printer modes 1 May be required to enter non printing Asci characters As part of the Printer code and to master entering the non printing characters by depressing the nit key and typing the three digit Asch Decimal code for that character. How simple writing will be eventually. 1c to Tom York Tom my Suvlu Texaco pays Price for naughtiness by Art Brjch Pauj one of 1985v More interesting Legal judgments had the business world agog. Pennzoil a maker of motor Oil sued to Ciao for improperly trying to acquire Gelly Oil. How naughty was tesaco1? according 10 a verdict handed Down by a Houston jury Texaco behaved badly enough to have to cough ups a billion. The question Hal Many people Are asking is How thelery arrived at that figure. Why Noi $9 billion or si5 billion i have a Hunch that this is what happened. The first juror rendered his opinion i be heard the Evi Dence and i would just like to say one thing. Five years ago i drove into it Temuco italian and the attendant would not wipe my Windshield. So i Lay to give Pennzoil $1 billion " a second juror said i tried to get air from a Texaco nation for my Bike when i was a kid and the Man with the Star told me to Buzz off. Lei s Fine Texaco is a third said the owner of a Texaco station in Loui Siana would t Lei me use the men s room because i did t buy any Gas. If that in t Worth a billion dollars More i Don t know whal juror had a different reason for raising the pen ally. One happened to be a Happy Pennzoil consumer. He said his family had been using their Oil for years and found the Quality outstanding. Another juror socked it to the defendant because the Texaco station near him closes at 9 every night. And the juror next to him insisted on raising the Ante another billion because he said it might be the Only Chance in his life to give anyone a briton to ibis. The damages added up Losi billion but the Kilili juror had not been heard from. He stood up and said Aren t you ashamed of your selves you Are All punishing Texaco for slights real or imagined committed against you. Our Job is 10 judge the merits of the Case. We have to ask ourselves was Texaco guilty of dirty tricks or Ore the Pennzoil people just a Bunch of sore losers forget your personal vendettas and let Justice be done. Let s have some Charity in our hearts and not Force a poor multinational to go begging at this time of there were tears in Many jurors eyes after the Pica. The Foreman got up. You Are right. We were trying to get revenge when we should judge this Case on the evidence. Let s Start Over again and decide what penalty to assess without rancor the Foreman passed a pad around the room. Each person wrote a number on in. Tote paper came Back to Tjw Foreman who said 7tms is More like it. 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