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Title: Interior of IBM Pavilion
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fresno
Collection: Worlds Fair Collection
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Description: Caption, "World's Fair, N.Y. Visitors at the IBM New York World's Fair Pavilion participate in a demonstration of two computer accomplishments -- recognition of handwritten characters and information retrieval. An optical scanning device reads a date written on a card by visitors and retrieves a featured headline published by the New York Times on that date. The recognized number is transmitted to and IBM 1460 data processing system where nearly 40,000 headlines from the Times are stored."
Type: image
Format: 20.5 cm. x 25.6 cm.
Identifier: EXP964.66a
http://digitized.library.fresnostate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/worldsfair/id/18729
Subject: New York World's Fair
Place: New York, New York
Source: Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs
Relation: World's Fair Collection

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