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Games

in progress

are

updated

every

five

minutes.

After

a recent

New

York

Rangers

hockey

game,

The

Sports Page

was

flashing

the

results

on the

line

even as

we

were

leaving

Madison

Square

Garden.

"The

Sports

Page is

a major

tech-

nological

breakthrough,"

Beeper

Plus

maintains.

"Increasingly

people

aren't

going

to

have to go

to

the source

to find

answers

they

need. The

source

is going

to

have

to

come

to them."

The

unit is designed

as the initial

prod-

uct

in

a line

of information

systems

that the

Las

Vegas

-based

company

plans

to offer.

Scores

and

results

taken from

three

nation-

al sports

newswires

are collected

in

the

company's

computer

then sent via

satellite

to

local paging

services

around

the

coun-

try, which

in turn

feed information

to

cus-

tomers via

the pager,

a

modified

four -

ounce

Motorola

PMR

2000 alpha-

numeric

paging

device.

As a

result, The

Sports

Page

can

do double

duty

as a standard

paging

beeper

and as

a receiver

for Beeper

Plus's

sports

-information

service.

The

unit has

a 1,984

character

memory,

which

means, "each

unit

can store

as

many

as

80 games

at a time."

Turning

it

off,

however,

dumps

the information

stored in

the unit.

The

Sports Page

works

only

in cities

and

locations

with

the necessary

paging

net-

works

-Las Vegas,

Southern

California,

Boston,

Chicago,

Dallas,

Houston,

New

York,

San Francisco;

Miami,

Atlantic

City, and

Michigan.

Due

to be serviced

shortly

are Atlanta,

Baltimore /Wash-

ington

D.C.,

Alabama,

Denver,

New

Or-

leans,

Cincinnati,

Minneapolis

/St.

Paul,

Memphis,

and Hawaii.

On

a ski trip

to Vermont,

a visit

to

Saratoga

Springs,

a business

trip

to Aus-

tin, or

hundreds

of

other locations,

the

thing is

useless.

In locations

with

the ser-

vice,

coverage

range varies

from

30 to 150

miles.

Besides

the

initial

cost of the

pager

and

a recharging

unit,

Sports ?age

subscribers

pay

a

service

charge

ranging

from $45

to

$75

per

month,

depending

on

location.

The system's

designers

claim

that

charge

makes

The Sports

Page

a

bargain

com-

pared

to the

cost of

using one

of

the phone-

in

services

that

provide

sports

and race

results.

That's

debatable,

perhaps,

but

for

the

sports

nut

to

whom

money

is no

object,

it's

certainly

a convenient

and even

com-

pelling

service.

A

number

of

celebrities

have

picked

up

on

Sports

Page

already

-Jimmy

the

Greek,

pop

singer

Rod

Stewart,

and New

York

Mets

pitcher

Rick

Aguilera,

who

bought

one

of the units

for

his

mother

so

she

could

keep

up with

his

exploits.

The system

is

not without

its

draw-

backs.

The 20-

minute wait

for race

results

is

too long.

if you've

got a bet

going.

After

making

our

customary payday

office

daily -

double wager

through

New

York's

legal

Off Track

Betting

service, we

found out

just how

long

20 minutes

can

be. So

even

with

The

Sports

Page, we

quickly

ran out

of patience

and still

had

to call the

result

line

to find

out if we

had won

(we

didn't, a

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1NOORNATION

CARO

The

Bread

Also

Rises

BREAD

BAKERY

AUTOMATIC

BREAD

MAKER

(SD-

BT2P).

Man-

ufactured

by: Panasonic

Co.,

One

Panasonic

Way,

Secaucus,

NJ

07094.

Price:

$329.

Bread

didn't

become

a

widely

ingested

foodstuff

in Japan

until about

30 years

ago.

But

the

ancient occidental

staple

proved

to

be

widely

popular

and today

Japanese

con-

sumers

buy

the same variety

of loaves

as

their

counterparts

in the west.

As

proof

of

its

popularity,

there's

the ingenious

auto-

matic bread

maker

marketed in

this coun-

try (after

its successful

irtroduction

in

Japan)

as

the Bread

Bakery.

A

little bigger

than

the proverbial

bread -

box,

the device

has

received widespread

publicity

and provoked

the predictable

culinary

controversy.

One

well

-known

food writer

passed severe

judgment

on the

Panasonic

product,

stating that

the loaves

it produces

aren't worth

the

effort it

takes

to make

them.

GIZMO,

after using

the Bread

Bakery

for

a

couple of weeks,

has

to

wonder

what

effort

the food journalist

was.

referring

to.

As

kitchen

gadgets

go,

that item

is the soul

of simplicity.

Ingredients

are measured

into

a container,

a few

buttons

are pushed,

and,

after

a minimum

of four

hours, out

comes

the staff

of

life.

The

container,

measuring

cup,

and

spoon

are

included with

the Bread

Bakery,

so it's possible

to make a loaf of

bread with

just

the specified

ingredients

and

the de-

vice

itself. What

the

Bread Bakery

does

is

the

tedious work

involved

in bread

-mak-

ing:

mixing

and kneading

the dough.

That

leaves

only

the measuring,

waiting,

and

eating

to

its

human

operator.

Measuring

13 inches

high,

14 inches

wide

and 9 inches

deep, the

Bread Bakery

is

a box

with

a hinged lid.

At the right

on

the

front is

a control panel.

Inside,

on the

left is what

might

be called

the "baking

chamber."

It's

a metal -lined

compartment

into

which

the

unit's bread

pan fits snugly.

On the

floor of the

compartment

is

a

shaft

that

fits into the

bread

pan's bottom

-

mounted

"kneading

blade," a

component

that mixes

and kneads

the

dough.

Since

neatness

counts,

the rig

also includes

a

cord storage

compartment

(the directions

say

the unit should

not

be left plugged

in

when

not in

use) and inside

the lid,

a small

compartment

for storing

the measuring

cup and

spoon.

The Bread

Bakery's

operating

instruc-

tions

include

a recipe

for "basic

loaf

bread."

The specified

ingredients,

except

for

dry yeast,

are measured

into

the bread

pan and

the pan is

slipped

into the baking

compartment.

The top is

closed

and

latched,

and

the yeast

is measured

into a

dispenser

mounted

on the

lid above the

baking

chamber.

At that point

the user goes

to the

control

panel, setting

it for

BREAD (a

second

DOUGH setting

is

for recipes

that the unit

mixes

and kneads but

does not bake).

The

Bread

Bakery

offers

two baking

time op-

tions. Pushing

a srntrr button will

bring

forth

a loaf of

bread in four

hours. Using

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