Word: computerize
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Toys, not pets, are the mainstay of the holiday season, and New York's Hammacher-Schlemmer has several playthings for adults like a $49.95 astrological computer. Punch in your birth date, and this marvel of technological wizardry provides you with a personal horoscope and tells you what your personality traits...
The LEAA audit also reported that 70,000 criminal histories that the CHSB had transferred to computer tapes were no longer usable because they were two years old and out of date.
Saken said he was currently applying the remainder of the last LEAA loan and the $1.9 million the state had appropriated to help program the computer, adding he could not estimate when the computer would be completed.
The computer has been built but "is not currently able to receive, process and disseminate the information," Daniel Jaffee, a former staff member of the CHSB, said yesterday.
CHSB spent the money gathering criminal records from various state agencies, transfering personnel to CHSB and building the actual computer, Jaffe said.