Description: Collection of briefs, VOT/SOTs, and stories on: 1) Boston Herald American unions and sale to Rupert Murdoch; newspapers in sidewalk vending box, plant exterior, comments from employees. Interview with Australian journalist Nigel Wade, Michael Wheeler, Stephen Mindich. 2) Hotel workers union fights for better wages and benefits, threatens strike, gets settlement. Cooks, maid, doorman at work. Studio interview with Local 26 president Domenic Bozzotto.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1982
Description: Regina Maris ship. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg unveils JFK sculpture model. Michael Dukakis and William Bulger pose for picture with the statue. Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubynin give speech at Kennedy Library on nuclear weapons control; Jerome Wiesner, McGeorge Bundy, Ted Sorenson, Edward Kennedy. Christian Science Twitchells story. Steven Pierce on revenue in the State House chambers. Massachusetts National Guard building. Illegal immigrant raid at Suffolk Downs. Justice Department seal. Excerpts from Charles Stark Draper films, including lecture, "Theory of Inertial Guidance" from 1961, "The Airplane at Play" from 1931, with audio from a 1976 lecture, and 1976 dedication ceremony in Technology Square.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/01/1988
Description: Inside Computer Mart in Waltham. Customer tries out Sorcerer program. Employee in back room tinkers with electronic components. Stands display personal computing magazines and manuals. Altair 8800 CPU. Printer types left to right and right to left. Strip mall storefront with 'for lease' sign. Interview with proprietor about outgrowing the location because personal computer business has multiplied rapidly. He sells systems to hobbyists and small businesses in cost range of $1,000 to $20,000.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1978
Description: Examples of computer animation exhibited at Computer Museum.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1989
Description: Microchip's 30th birthday is marked at Computer Museum. Huge transistor boards, technological ancestor of the chip. Examples of common use of the ubiquitous chip - appliances, toys, etc.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/12/1988
Description: Computer programmer Richard Stallman, known as a premier 'hacker' and winner of a MacArthur grant, tells of his lifelong fascination with computers and his crusade to stop software monopolies.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1991
Description: Computer medicine lab at Beth Israel Hospital. Demonstration of test program asking questions on screen in French or Spanish of patient visiting clinic for certain medical problems. Patient would answer via keyboard. If no complications, computer issues prescription appropriate for diagnosis. Printout of examples of computer generated dialogue. Inside computer room -- CPUs labelled “Sherlock” and “Mycroft,” tapes on shelves, teletype-like printer. Outside main entrance to hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/29/1983
Description: Intensity of low frequency radiation emitted by VDTs and tv monitors is measured by Gauss meter. It shows that radiation passes through computer user's body. Liquid crystal display. Hands on keyboard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/05/1990
Description: Computer show at Hynes Auditorium. Children converse with robots. Man types on keyboard producing synthesized voice. Music synthesizer. Pen plotter printer. Photograph printer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/21/1980
Description: MIT computer users discover virus which infiltrated programs, rapidly propagating itself but not damaging files. It spread through electronic mail and was found at institutions throughout the country.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/04/1988