Show 6D Standard-Examin- Thursday er May 20 1982 Stocks and mutual funds NEW YORK (AP) — Down with technobabbie: The stock market drifted lower today as the decline of the past six sessions continued The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials off 2997 in SonyCp SCrEG SCalEd SouthCo SouPoc SouRy Sperry SquarD Squibb StOilCI StOInd StdOOh StaufCh SterlDg StevnJ SunCo the last six trading days slipped another 238 to 83352 by noon- time Losers led gainers 2 on the New York Stock Exchange The NYSE’s compo3-- site index lost to 13 6619 At the American 961 15'i— 192 13 7 162 7 281 12 260 6 424 7 44 31 14e 324 192 184 126 39 6 173 5 7 14 240 6 280 6 260 5 144 108 120 7 11 119 263 37 834 1011 2011 682 187 365 60 230 4 131 Vs 17Ve 31 Vs The RAMs ROMs Vs By RICHARD M HARNETT 85Vi— 1 Vs 25 25 35— 32Vs 43 36 Va Vs — Va 23 Va U’i— Va 21 35 Stock Exchange the market value index was down 256 at 27029 Volume on the Big SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — If you don’t know a “baud” from a “byte” or a “RAM” from a “ROM” we have a bit of cheering news English speaking America is counterattacking against the jargon of Silicon Valley At least one agent of clarity has infiltrated computerland His code name is “Doctor Z” He is on the switch coded on” 0 is off and bytes and coded 1 is - More and more of us are being exposed every day to the jargon of technologists It is a spreading like a virus among otherwise healthy people They catch it from the sales talk advertising and instruction booklets that come with our electronic gear These people get to talking about scene taking immediate steps to “bauds” “bytes” “bits” undermine lay open and knock “boots” “buffers” “busses” and the living mystique out of the sec- “bugs” They use a lot of acronyms RAM ROM PROM EPret language of technologists ROM MOS Doctor Z whose real name is They also use ordinary words John Unger Zussman calls it but slyly change the meaning “technobabble” doesn’t mean common Zussman who has a PhD in “Logic” sense to them psychology from Stanford is directime ago This started a tor of research for Avalanche a when “program” long became somesoftware company in Palo Alto thing to feed a computer instead of Calif He also writes a column for a list of musical pieces Infoworld an industry trade paper “One of the reasons for all this is Zussman believes he has a “sen- that the industry is technologically sitivity to where the general public driven instead of being market-driven- ” is coming from” in the computer said Zussman “becomHe sees folk us He cites a new hand-hel- d age ordinary ing ignored and intimidated” by puterized device to translate Enengineers who no longer speak the glish phrases into foreign lansame language we do guages He cites one of the latest exam“It’s much cheaper and much ples: simpler to have a phrase book” he Hewlett-Packard’- s new HP87 said “but there was a technical a personal computer has switch on ability to put out this product and the back with the simple but impo- somebody put it out” rtant function of turning the Engineers and programmers “tend to associate with each other machine on and off It isn’t marked “on” and “off” rather than with what we might call normal people” Zussman It is marked “1” and “0” “I’m not exactly sure if the en- said “They begin to think everygineers who designed it forgot the body is like them that everybody words ‘on’ and ‘off’” said Dr Z uses these words Being in the in“In the world of computers a dustry for a while you begin unless Board totaled 2159 million shares at noontime against 2554 million at the same point Wednesday NEW YORK (AP) —Midday national prices for New York Stock Exchange issues PE Sales Last Chg Terrorist-proo- f you are careful to lose touch withwhat the general public under- stands” He says the jargon may be more precise for the engineers when they are talking among themselves “But when dealing with ordinary people if there are 29764 bytes remaining in RAM I don’t tell them that Instead I tell them that they have room for about 30000 more characters It may not be exactly true but it gets the idea across without inducing technological anxiety” Zussman agrees that as many of us suspected the real reason for technobabble is to preserve the mystique surrounding the technological “priesthood” “It identifies the speaker as one of the privileged few Technobabble is the primary instrument by which the ‘have-nots- ’ are kept from known to it If were become having that everyday ordinary people could understand operate build and program computers the priesthood would lose its tech-nolgic- al power” He notes that the engineers even call their most esteemed experts “gurus” “I firmly believe that 95 percent of technobabble could be eliminated without sacrificing an ounce of precision” says Dr Z But he also reminded that it isn’t only the electronics people who have their trade jargon “When I started writing for and I heard the word ‘graf’ a lot I thought they were talking about an illustration It took me a while to learn it means paragIn-foWo- rld raph” skyscraper to tower over Hong By NEAL ROBBINS HONG KONG (UPI) — Hong Kong’s biggest bank is building what it calls the skyscraper of the future — spacious comfortable and terrorist-proo- f n The project is under construciton on a prime site in the British colony’s financial district for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp According to a study commis-sone- d by the bank its layout makes the tower more efficient than any other building in the world in terms of usable space per total floor area Architects of the building say individual work areas can even be fitted out with personal adjustable environmental controls like those of a first-clas- s airplane seat In an effort to humanize the office the designers grouped each three floors into “village” units where the open layout encourages 41-sto- 222 Borden BorgW si 40 280 BosEd viBranif BristM Brnswk 210 BucyEr Burllnd 88 BrlNtn Bun-g- h 1 152 152a 260 6 7 53 78 22 5 561 11 398 432 8 64 6 89 9 606 10 557 1 32 27Ve— 21 11-1- 6 — — Vs 53 18 Ve 147e— Ve 21 48— 35’i— Vs Vs — C— C — ry $265-millio- friendliness among workers Walls and even floors are easily changed And people in the high lobby of the steel and glass giant will bask in rays of the sun mirrored in to light the cavernous en10-sto- — R— R — and cooling to any point in a room entirely through the flooring rather than the ceiling as is usually done This builds in a potential for work places that can be “controlled much as a person does in an airplane seat” says Seddon “The worker can adjust the air and light to suit personal preferences” The environment of the offices will be computer-controlle- d but a lesson from conservationtaking ists natural lighting is not neglected Most buildings are constructed on site but the skyscraper of the 80s is prefabricated with factory precision into bolt-o- n beams clip-o- n walls and even fully equipped washrooms that literally plug into the structure “More than half of the contracts have already been let” says Roy Guy who oversees the contracting “That means we have British Steel making 15000 tons of frame Cup-piProducts of St Louis Missouri K©rag putting together 10 million parts and the washroom modules being prepared in Japan” Guy points to an architect’s drawing of the skyscraper as it will look upon completion in 1985 and says proudly “It is an international effort with a very big Hong Kong in-wa- input’ es ry tryway Ogden grain OGDEN (UPI) — Grain prices Wednesday Under 1 1 protein no bid No 1 1 protein 370 bu up 05 No 12 protein 404 bu up 04 No 13 protein 424 bu up 04 No soft white 369 bu up 02 No 2 barley 555 cwt unch Arrivals: 4 cars - all wheat Commodity listings SL livestock Trade very slow not many slaughter-read- y cattle available Load good to 3 1800 lb slaughter mostly choice steers 1 dollar higher at 74 dollars No confirmed sales on feeder cattle 2-- Gold Denver grain DENVER UPI — Groin prices Wed- nesday No 1 hard winter wheat 364 bu cwt No 2 yellow corn 515-52- 5 cwt No 2 Darley 470-77- 5 Board of trade NEW YORK (UPI) — Foreign and Domestic gold prices quoted in dollars per troy ounce Thursday: Lonaon Morning fixing 34150 off 050 Afternoon fixing 34250 up 050 The Paris (free market) Frankfurt and Zurich markets were closed in observance of the Ascension Day holiday New York Handy and Harman 34250 up 050 base price for refining Engelhard settling and unfabricatod gold 34250 up 050 per troy ounce Selling price fabricated gold 35963 up 05J per troy ounce Silver & Harman y NEW YORK spot silver Thursday $6705 a troy ounce Engelhard Silver $6655 Fabricated (AP)-Hand- $7174 Cash grain CHICAGO (AP) — Wheat No 2 No hard red winter Thursday Corn No 2 2 soft red winter 355n 355n (hopper) unquoted for Ellow Oats No 4 heavy No 1 yellow 665n No 2 yellow corn Wednesday was (hopper) unquoted quoted at for (box) 280’2n 211n 280n Chicago grain CHICAGO (UPI) — Wheat and soybeans were lower com narrowly mixed and oats fractionally higher at midmorn-in- g Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade Wheat was off 1 to 3 cents corn up Vi to off V2 oats unchanged to up and soybeans off 1 to 2 The market was higher early on increased demand then declined on local selling A large professional firm bought 3 million bushels of corn while commission house and commercial buying was reported in wheat and soybeans Higher gold prices based on reports Argentina nad rejected the latest peace proposal from Great Britain to resolve the Falkland Islands crisis influenced grain and soybean traders in the corn and Rain Wednesday soybean belts and additional precipitation forecast today was construed as bearish to the futures markets CBT soybean oil futures were supported by a weakening of soyoil prices in Brazil The Brazilian government lifted the import tax on crude soyoil and prices fell The prices: 364 off 2 Sept 379 off V2 Dec 399 off Corn July 279 V2 up V2 Sept 281 V2 unchanged Dec 285 off Vi Wheat July i 1 Oats July 191 179 V2 up V2 unchanged up Decl84 Sept The massive latticework of the skyscraper is designed however with the darker side of the coming decades in mind Eight external masts — supports that rise up out of the ground and go all the way to the helicopter pad on the roof — are reinforced to make it nearly impossible for terrorists to topple the building with an explosion The structure also will stand up to attacks by nature It has been designed to resist earthquakes up to 79 on the Richter Scale and to be safe from the strongest typhoons ever known to hit the South China coast Aside from such chilling touches the building incorporates all the latest technological and design innovations according to Christopher Seddon of Foster Associates the architectural firm behind the concepts At intervals between the masts are supports resembling those used on suspension bridges From the supports hang the intermediate floors making it unnecessary to waste precious space taken up by columns rising through the 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