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Show Page 28—THE HERALD. Prove, Utah, Tuesday, January 1, 1980 Lot To Be Considered Home ComputerCan Prove Cos By JEANNE LESEM UPI Family Editer NEW YORK(UPI) — Using a home computer is child's play. But who can afford — or wants to spend — $1,150 just for starters, for an electronic toy? A homecomputeris more than a toy. says Jim Fallas, marketing program managerfor personal computer division of a Lubbock. Texas manufacturer. Whileit will play games — kiddie and adult — it will do lots more, Fallas said, as he put the computer through its paces. It balances budgets. figures income taxes. teaches arithmetic, grammar and other basic skills It records messages, makes printouts and could even provide weather crop and financial reports, train, plane and bus schedules and recipes, Fallas said in an interview First you buy the hardware. No, not hammer,nails and electrical supplies Hardware is computer language for the basic unit: a free-standing typewriter-like keyboard and a video display color monitor that lookslike a television set with a 13-inch screen. Next, you shell out $19.95-§65.95 apiece for accessories to make the home computer pe4form — one for each subject or function. Texas Instruments’s accessories include Command Modules — little black boxes that slide into a keyboard slot the way cartridges fit a stereo. They're preprogrammed with silicone chips to make the ware work. silicone chip lookslike a square silver sequin without the hole in the middle. If you want to make your: own program, that, too, is possible, Fallas said. A module builtinto the computer responds to keyboard commands, letting you transfer the program to regular tape cassettes. Even this is not cheap. Fallas said good quality tape is necessary, the kind that costs about $25 per cassette. Still with me? By pushing buttons on the keyboard, you changethe images on the screen and respond to commandsthat appearin printing or in what the manufacturercalls “human-like voice.” i) ‘A MARVIN WORTH/AARON RUSSO PRODUCTION * A MARK RYDELL FILM PRODUCED BY MARVIN WORTH& AARON RUSSO + DIRECTED BY MARK RYDELL SCREENPLAY BY BILL KERBY AND BO GOLDMAN + STORYBY BILL KERBY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TONY RAY » DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY VILMOS ZSIGMOND. A.S C. MATINEES mittee 4 JEANNELESEN tries her hand at a home computer that sells for $1,150. It consists of a typewriter-like keyboard and a video display color menitor that looks like a TV set. AccesTo me the Speech Synthesizer sounded more like a robot. Among other things,it is used with someofthe children’s games and educational modules to reinforce learning. Fallas said. Spooky. The synthesizer, a printout device and a Terminal Emulator won'tbe in stores until the first quarterof next year. And what is a Terminal Emulator? My dictionary defines the two words as “final’’ and “imitator”’ or “rival.” TI's emulator ‘‘can access subscription data services and time shared computer systems,” sories to make it perform — one for each subject or function—cost from $19.95 to $69.95. (UPI Telephoto) the companysays. Translation: it can call up on the screen such information as transportation schedules, weather, crop and financial reports and other information stored in other computers. Mati Oe AS THEY ROARED INTO BATTLE, ONLY ONE THING WAS MISSING...THE ENEMY. “The Terminal Emulator requires two additional peripheral devices — a RS-232 Interface and Telephone Modem.” the manufacturer says Can you afford them? You'll have to wait until next yearto findout. Their prices have not yet been announced — and the Home Financial Decisions Command Modulealso won't be in stores until early 1980. American Studies ‘Magic’ Folk Healing TRUJILLO,Peru (UPI) — The troubled grocery store owner drank a mildly hallucinogenic tea madefrom budsof the San Pedro cactus, steadying himself for an all-night session with shaman Eduardo Calderon. The grocer, his business suddenly headed toward bankruptcy, believed someone had put a hex on him. Calderon, known in the northern Peruvian city as ‘El Tuno,” the wise rogue. promised to take it away. The shaman andhis patient passed the night singing, chanting and working with a table full of power symbols borrowed from witchcraft and Christianity. Just before dawn Ei Tuno performed the final purification rite of fire and water. The grocer, his senses opened bythe cactus tea, jumped across a crucifixshaped fire and E! Tuno crossed the patient’s chest with streams of spitted holy water. At daybreak, the grocer declared himself cured and hurriedly went to open his store. El Tuno ate breakfast, sawhis 14 childrenoff to school and went to sleep. Mosteducated Peruvians scoff at El Tuno’s pic- _ turesque methods of folk healing. But anthropologists, medical doctors and international health organizations are beginning to believe that folk medicine — from herbs to hex removals — can play importantrolesin a developing nation’s health care program. “For developing nations to reach the World work as ‘‘an attempi to harmonize opposites in the patient through a resolutionof conflicts — thatis to Say psychological imbalance.” “The sharman and the patient agree on the problem and the type of theme while the hallucinogenic helps rnanipulate a sense of internal harmonythat helps deal with the problems.” Sharonsaid he is studying traditional treatments “as a first step in adopting it for modern medical use,"’ much in the same mannerasthe ‘barefoot doctors” program that combines traditional and modern medicine in China. eT Ll iene AYKROYD - ED BEATY -.JOKN BELUSHI LORRAINE GARY ER LEE TIM MATHESON -TOSHIRO WINE MURRAYDAN AM ISTP WEES § ROBERT STACK - TREAT WILLIAMS RK TORS and CORUM PURE eset WED . & THURS §:40-7:00-9:30 7:00-9:30 a Lae merge He wasa poor black Health Organization's goal of fotal health by the year 2000, they are going to have to build on what ‘they have — natural medicine,” said Dr. Douglas Sharon. Sharon, 38, an anthropologist from the ‘University of Southern California, has been study-, ‘ing shamans like El Tunofor the last 12 years. “Shamans mainly deal with people’s pychological ‘and psychosomatic problems that are caused by ‘disruptions in the social organism. If someone ‘believes he has a hex it is usually because he has thad an argument with someone. Then he becomes sick because the social organismis upset. He’ll convince himself he is sick and go to the shaman to cure it. “The same thing happens today when people become sick from problems and tension, except they go to a psychiatrist or psychologist.” “Most of the people who cometo mehave psychological problems,’’ said El Tuno, a bigbelled, ponytailed 50-year-old with Asian features. ‘They suffer from insecurity or have psychosomaticills.” “Thepatient and I have a short talk and I usually make a diagnosis by the guinea pig method. The guinea pig has very sensitive cells that reflect whateverails the patient. like an x-ray.I passitall over the patient’s body. cut it open andlookatits entrails. “If the patient has a common sickness, | treat him with herbs. Butif it is psychological, we must have an all-night session.” El Tuno, probably the most open of Peru's MATINEES TODAY AT 12:00-2:30-4:40 was adopted NN STEVE MARTIN. | AUNIVERSALPICTURE 19 SAL CITY STUDIOS INC 5 RESERVED WED. & THURS. 7:15-9:00 MATINEES TODAY AT 1:30-3:25-5:20 7:15-9:00 shamans and the subject of two scholarly books, calls himself ‘‘a type of primitive psychological social worker’’ and is slightly skeptical of the supernatural, even whenhis rituals apparently are effective. There are three Ewa) NG sides to this lovestory. “I change myritual for each patient. If they say they are being followed by a spirit. then I sayI'll get it out,” he says. ‘In reality I don't believe in spirits or devils. My workis kind of a rational exorcism, “Most traditional shamansbelieve in the spirits and devils, but I see all this as more of a psychological treatment.” Anthropologist Sharon. who has studied shamanismby apprenticing himself to El Tuno and other Peruvian practitioners, views his master's ve | Friday, January 4th 7 p.m. KSL-TV5 WitchcraftStill - Survives in Cuba Enjoy the original, un-edited movie classic, with only 3 commercial interruptions. | HAVANA (UPI) — Witchcraft stil! has its fol| lowers in this Marxist state. Women wearing the long white robes of the in| itiates of Yawocanstill be seen on Havanastreets. ' Yawo is a god in ‘‘santeria’’ — the mixture of * Catholicism and the Yorubarites brought to Cuba by Nigerian slaves. . One ‘‘spiritual leader” says at least a dozen Havana homes hold well-attended santeria meetings once a week unda bigger bash atleast once a yearon the dayof their patron ‘‘saint."’ A foreign journalist was barred from onerecent session by worshipers who did not wantpublicity. One believer said later some 50 persons, mostly middle aged andelderly women, participated in the lowvoiced chanting and prayers. timeless musical. Hear all your favorite , Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi and France Nuyen lead anall-star castin this songs,like “Bali Ha'i’’, “Some Enchanted Evening’,.and “There is Nothing Like a Dame" Thetime: World War li. Thesetting | an exotic Pacific Isle. Between the native A presentation of » DUSTIN HOFFMAN MERYL STREEP JANE ALEXANDER girls, navy nurses and restless sailors, there is enough romance, action and excitement to entertain the entire family! 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