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Title: 'Skipper' computer teaching program
Date(s): 1985-06-05
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Laboratories (associated name), Radio Corporation of America. News and Information Department (originator)
Description: Text from reverse side: 'RCA engineer Richard M. Peterson demonstrates a prototype computer program, called 'Skipper,' which can help teach the basics of sailboat handling. Mr. Peterson developed the program with two other researchers of RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J. to show the concepts of 'How-To' intelligent systems. In the future, such systems could be made available to consumers accessing remote computers through telecommunication or on home computers as they become more powerful.
Collection ID: RCA News and Information Department photographs (Accession 2464.68)
Hagley ID: AVD_246468_007_026_002
Collection: RCA News and Information Department photographs

Title: 'Skipper' computer teaching program
Date(s): 1985-06-05
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Laboratories (associated name), Radio Corporation of America. News and Information Department (originator)
Description: Left to right: Richard M. Peterson, Jerome D. Sable, Anthony D. Robbi
Collection ID: RCA News and Information Department photographs (Accession 2464.68)
Hagley ID: AVD_246468_007_026_001
Collection: RCA News and Information Department photographs

Title: Computerized pool game
Date(s): 1970
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Laboratories (associated name), Radio Corporation of America. News and Information Department (originator)
Description: Text from reverse side: RCA 5738. RCA Labs. 'Scientists at the RCA's Princeton (N.J.) Laboratories use a TV set to play a computerized version of one of man's oldest games -- pool. When 'cue ball' is touched by light pen, an RCA Spectra 70/25 computer sets balls in motion by solving laws of pool ball motion and ball and table friction at the rate of 100,000 computations a second. Computerized pool demonstrates how computers can be used to reduce complex theories into understandable visual...
Show moreText from reverse side: RCA 5738. RCA Labs. 'Scientists at the RCA's Princeton (N.J.) Laboratories use a TV set to play a computerized version of one of man's oldest games -- pool. When 'cue ball' is touched by light pen, an RCA Spectra 70/25 computer sets balls in motion by solving laws of pool ball motion and ball and table friction at the rate of 100,000 computations a second. Computerized pool demonstrates how computers can be used to reduce complex theories into understandable visual presentations, the RCA scientists explain.'
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Collection ID: RCA News and Information Department photographs (Accession 2464.68)
Hagley ID: AVD_246468_007_025_001
Collection: RCA News and Information Department photographs

Title: 'Skipper' computer teaching program
Date(s): 1985-06-05
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Laboratories (associated name), Radio Corporation of America. News and Information Department (originator)
Description: Text from reverse side: 'RCA engineer Richard M. Peterson demonstrates a prototype computer program, called 'Skipper,' which can help teach the basics of sailboat handling. Mr. Peterson developed the program with two other researchers of RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J. to show the concepts of 'How-To' intelligent systems. In the future, such systems could be made available to consumers accessing remote computers through telecommunication or on home computers as they become more powerful.
Collection ID: RCA News and Information Department photographs (Accession 2464.68)
Hagley ID: AVD_246468_007_026_002
Collection: RCA News and Information Department photographs

Title: Musical keyboard for computer
Date(s): 1982-30
Contributor(s): RCA Corporation (associated name), RCA Laboratories (associated name), Radio Corporation of America. News and Information Department (originator)
Description: Accompanying note: Nils O. Ny, Advanced Systems Research Laboratory, recently received a U.S. patent for a piano keyboard to be mounted above a computer's regular lettered and numbered keys. Pressure on one of the piano keys operates an alphanumeric key and records the musical note in the computer's memory. With the keyboard, a home computer will be able to record music and play it back.
Collection ID: RCA News and Information Department photographs (Accession 2464.68)
Hagley ID: AVD_246468_007_030_001
Collection: RCA News and Information Department photographs