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Show 1 Page B10 Thursday, March 13, 1986 Park Record The Eating Establishment Join us by the fireplace in the patio greenhouse for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Featuring breakfast specialties locals have loved for years; served everyday until 5:00 p.m. Enjoy homemade soups, sandwiches and hearty winter lunches. Dinner entrees available from 5:00 p.m. that include reasonably priced steak, chicken, fresh fish and the famous "Chicago Burgers." Early bird dinners served nightly from 5:006:00 p.m. Open everyday 8:00 a.m. 10:00 p.m. r - r f T' THE f i t ESTABLISHMENT iff 317 MAIN STREET PARK CITY V AMERICAN EXPRESS, VISA & MASTER CHARGE 649-8284 President's Star Wars defense plan to be directed by software assemblage To technology buffs, there's something seductive in the idea of defending our nation with a computer com-puter network that, day and night, weekday and weekend, stands sentry, sen-try, ready to shoot laser cannons at enemy missiles in space. No surprise sur-prise we were attracted early to the President's Strategic Defense Initiative In-itiative ("Star Wars") plan. In case you've been in a cave for the past year, here's the plan in capsule cap-sule summary. Currently, we keep 8,400 nuclear missiles aimed at the USSR, hoping the threat of mutual annihilation keeps them from launching laun-ching their 9,500. Star Wars aims to retire the missiles by hanging laser and ion beam cannons from space satellites and aiming them with land- and space-based radar. Supporters say it will knock down almost every missile launched against us. Who'd be the hands running all this sophisticated weaponry and weapon-tracking equipment? A massive computer network. And the brains? Computer programs, of course. Star Wars will be operated by the largest collection of software ever assembled for one job. Just think of what it would mean if it works: the end of nuclear arsenals! And its entire success (or, heaven help us, failure) depends on writing the largest computer program pro-gram in history. When we heard that, Army and Navy and Air Force combined couldn't keep us from researching how that software will be designed and tested. US The Business Computer bv Franklvnn Peterson and Judy K-Turkel We pored through unclassified Department of Defense documents. We dug up independent studies, including in-cluding an impressive volume compiled com-piled by the Institure of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). And we found early one telling set of facts: Star Wars' tentative timetable. From the immense press barrage, we'd assumed that the Pentagon was ready to deploy Star Wars during dur-ing this visit of Halley's comet, not maybe its next. Fact is, almost nobody expects it to be in place until well after the year 2000. Engineers and long-range planners can't even complete "studies" of technologican feasibility before the 1990s. Only then will they offer a good guess on whether we have the smarts and the bucks to build it. The specifications for Star Wars' hardware and software are mind-boggling mind-boggling even to computer futurists. The challenge starts with the space-borne space-borne scanners that must be always alert for the firing of unfriendly rockets. Their computers will need to process 10 billion chunks of infor-mation infor-mation per second (10 gigaflops floating-point operations per second) fed from specialized eyes-in-the-skies. Computers in today's to-day's satellites process up to 10 "million" chunks per second. So before Star Wars can go into service, engineers must make today's fastest computers 1,000 times faster. Other technologican challenges are equally futuristic, such as building a computer that can run maintenance-free for 10 years. We have computers that run more than 10 years without repair. Engineers have to improve computer reliability reliabili-ty 100-fold for Star Wars. What next, if our space spies spy enemy rockets? Star Wars calls for ground-based computer networks to unleash and aim conventional rockets, lasers and as-yet undeveloped weapons in space and on the ground. These computers will need to zip through at least 10,000 operations per second. Today's most sophisticated banking networks handle han-dle 1,000 per second. Needed: a 10-fold increase in speed. All these improvements are achievable, but it's going to cost. The Department of Defense plans to spend nearly $26 billion from 1985 to 1989 just on studies and tests. "We get our hands real dirty so you won't have to." Cars never break down at a convenient time and auto repair is a service we always take for granted until the emergency occurs. Fortunately here in Park City we have the experienced people to trust for reliable repairs. , Although IRONHORSE AUTOMOTIVE has been open only a short time we have been repairing your cars for years. Well give you a hand with all of your untimely auto repairs. s n, nor. UTOliiOTIME k Pistacchio's Flavor of the Month "VI Pralines arid Caramel r Kl COLE SPORT LTD Park City Resort Center 10-6 Daily 12-5 Sunday Half Moon Gallery presents a show by Paul Davis and Gres Glazier The public is invited to celebrate the opening by attending a party from 7-9 p.m. on Saturday, March 15. ' '' . ' s ' 'Condor" by Greg Glazier 'Nudes in a Parking Lot" by paui Davis This ten-day show features Paul Davis and Greg Glazier, both award winning artists. Paul Davis is currently chairman of the art department at the University of Utah. Greg Glazier, a Salt Lake native, has exhibited in many local galleries. 77lf fT r i s w r i i s- m m Gallery hours Tuesday-Sunday H-7 301 Historic Main Street 649-0442 Estimates of actual , lean heavily money, but the U.S sna lw cost a bundle-and their money's worth in spinoffs to private proyements to hoZf' airplanes, computers ; control all came from!W;! gram discoveries. Wc Pft Star Wars, too, can sn' mediate bennefits if H technology isn't kept unde?! wraps. Automated ca monitors would finally hi'31 feasible. Crib Death monitor f alert parents "and" Cai Airport collisions could vanish. But there's one W question: Will Star Wars twh3 protect against enemy ,3 We'U tell you what we oS' our next column. n The columnists answer ouk and send a checklist of baft Send a stamped, self-addZ envelope to The Business CoZ! 4343W.BeltlineHwy.,Madis5 53711. A comparative Thi, 6 spreadsheet features is includerfi 4,000-word special report, "si! sheet Buyer's and User's For your copy, send a R clw payable to Newspaperbooks l Report FP03, in care of this J P.O. Box 4426, Orlando Fh 32802-4426. " (c) 1986 PK Associates, Inc. Distributed by Tribune vices, Inc. Thanks, World Cup organizing group The ChamberBureau would like to give a special thanks to the Park City Ski Area and the Subaru Park City World Ski Classic organizing committee for helping make Tuesday's Tues-day's World Cup Ski Race another big success. "The exposure that Park City receives on a national and international level is free publicity worth several hundred thousand dollars," says Bill Clinger, ChamberBureau executive director. direc-tor. The Flamingos are still coming: Well, the countdown is on. The first Annual Park City Flamingo Festival is only four weeks away. Using the Theme, "Spring's a Beach in Park City," the Flamingo Festival will run April 4 to 13. Participating businesses will be offering three items for the price of two on their various goods and services. Get in the spirit because the flamingos will be here soon. Park CilyAm Update Chamber of CommercrConvriiln ana visitors nurcau Out-of-state Co-Op advertisii deadline: The deadline for p; ticipation in the ChamberBurai Co-Op Summer Advertising Pti gram is Friday, March 21. For be information contact Mark Mei at649-iooo. ? . y;'.!' March Membership Social: current and prospective mailt are invited to atten ChamberBureau's monlll Membership Social on Tuesia; March 25, 5-7 p.m., at the tat Hotel. Ipersonal services -fll--------------------- AUDIO VIDEO REPAIR Air Wave Radio 8C Television Co. 231 7 So. Main or home service. Authorized service and expert repair on most brands VCR, TV, stereo, big screens. Call 486-5641 CHILDREN'S DAY CARE The Children's Chalat Open every day through the ski season. Our certified and licensed staff provides preschool and indoor play activities located on Frontage Rd. west of Jeremy Ranch. After school programs for children include tutoring, piano lessons and tumbling. Call 649-5959. HYPNOSIS Hypnotherapy works. . .in every aspect of your life. Adults and children -Accelerate specific desired changes. -Modify habits and behaviors -Power learning, recall and concentration -Athletic excellence -Motivation -Mental, emotion and physical self control and confidence -Alleviate pain, accerate healing -Self-hypnosis Tawwakul Baird Certified Hypnotherapist Call Prospector Athletic Club 649-6670 Private Sessions, Groups and Classes . MASSAGE Massage Therapy Robert Fournier Therapeutic Massage Prospector Athletic Club Available anytime by appointment House calls. Female Therapist available. |