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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were consigned to passive, sedentary lives. Today, with the aid of microcomputers, systems as ingenious as Rob's are getting easier and cheaper to build. "The past few years have witnessed a tremendous increase in individuals and small groups that develop special aids for disabled persons," says Gregg Vanderheiden, director of the Trace Center for the Severely Communicatively Handicapped at the University of Wisconsin. "Microcomputers are making it possible for designers to develop sophisticated electronic aids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Power to the Disabled | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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