Word: computerize
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The latest gadgets in computer technology--including machines that walk, talk, type and speak foreign languages--were on display this weekend at Boston's Hynes Auditorium.
The Northeast Personal and Business Computer Show drew well over a hundred computer firms, exhibiting products that ranged from "space-war" games to "glitch detectors" (computer program troubleshooters), and from musical synthesizers to mobile robots.
Most exhibitors were promoting mini-computer systems, which small businesses are beginning to use for bookkeeping, "word-processing," and information storage. Some systems sell for under $1000.
But these mini-computers, many of which are as small as an office electric typewriter with a small TV screen on top, can also play games. One company at the show sold "software" packages--computer programs--for tarot cards, "Pirate Adventure," "Magic Isle," and the classic "Star Trek."
P & H Linguistics displayed a language-translation system with a vocabulary of over 17,000 French words. A voice synthesizer hooks up to the computer and "speaks" the French or English sentence.