Meet Sam

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Meet Sam

Date11/19/1984

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Russell, Jim (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Meet Sam: No he's not the operator. SAM is Synthetic Audio Micro; the Voice synthesizer; sandwiched between the monitor (top left) and the disk drives; which are hooked to a keyboard. The Hewlett-Packard 150 microcomputer is being operated by David Kostyshyn who developed the talking device to overcome his blindess.

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