A Wang by any other name . . .
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ANYONE whose sanity or marriage is threatened by Rubiks cube can find salvation for £15 in a computer program that will show him or her how to solve the problem after one face has been completed. Network Computer Services, which is not unknown in the motor industry, offers the solution.
But it is unlikely to be of any use to anyone who, like me, cannot understand "BASIC language reproduced on floppy disk suitable for any Wang user or for any CP/M machine, such as Apple, Pet Commodore, Super Brain or Tandy."
I cringe also from CB radio, which Ford dealers are now offering, with "invariable squelch control and a switchable attenuator." This, I believe, is a modern version of a device used in the Spanish Inquisition to crush the victim and then to stretch him.