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Article: PLUG AND PLAY: EXECS' FAVE GIZMOS: From PDAs to train sets, here's what starts them up.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
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- Crain's Chicago Business
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- January 24, 2000
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Although today's cyber-geniuses have not -- to our knowledge, anyway -- figured out how to stop the aging process, the microchip has paved the way for the next best thing: e-gadgets that make adults feel young again. And like kids with toys, everyone has a favorite. Gordon Reichard, president and CEO of Telenisus Corp. in Chicago, has two favorite devices that he considers toys. The first is a computerized model railroad set that he programmed and has been building since college. It can run four miniature trains at once, telling one train to slow down as it nears a junction where another is crossing and coordinating when crossing lights flash. "It's completely automated," ...