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Title: Voice activated computer
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Chinn, Paul
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Gus Searcy (left) and Franz Kavan are developers of a voice-activated computer dubbed "Sidney", which when programmed, will perform various household tasks such as turning on and off lights, TV sets, air conditioners, etc. Photograph dated September 6, 1983.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 35 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085976
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b075_f2_i7
CARL0004778209
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26361
Subject: Commodore Computer (Firm)
Computer software--California--Los Angeles
Computers--California--Los Angeles
Computer programmers--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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