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...footer can look him straight in the flashback reels. But his voice carries 18 rock 'n' roll records an hour to FM radios within 100 miles of Kenmore Square. The human beings at WRKO-FM (98.5) call their one-piece radio station "the shy but friendly robot," which is catchy but far from accurate as a description. He gets about so quickly that already, only five weeks after arriving in Boston, he receives several hundred calls a night. And when it comes to friendliness, he's as cold as Petula Clark. He's an automated hard rock station that foregoes...
Breaking in against WBZ and WMEX, Boston's rock stations, WRKO had to offer something radically different -- and that something is 18 uninterrupted songs an hour. This is where the friendly robot comes...
...certified top 35," 12 "extras," the ads and promotion pieces are all on separate tape cartridges in the robot, a 12-foot long product of Automatic Tape Control, Bloomington, Illinois. The five-second identification spots are on the ends of those cartridges. There are three hour-long reels, two of flashbacks, one of instrumental fillers, that proceed from number to number when called...
...only the robot could overcome his commercial instincts and use his numerical advantage as WOR (New York's new FM rocker) does, by playing more new songs and hits in other areas...
Suppes has been working on his robot teacher for the past five years, using $2,500,000 in grants from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Office of Education. At first, he tested a primitive drill and practice system consisting of Teletypes hooked into a Stanford computer by telephone wires. The new IBM computerized teacher is housed in a windowless, thick-carpeted new building at the Brentwood School, and connects to 16 student-instruction "terminals" that have Teletypes, TV screens and speaker systems...