August 1983 Issue of The Portable Companion
date: label: date made
content: 1983
name: label: maker
content: Osborne Computer Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Osborne Computer Corporation published a magazine for owners of Osborne computers. This is the ninth issue, published for August1983. This copy came to the Smithsonian from George Trotter of Bethany, Oklahoma, who also gave the museum an Osborne (see 1986.0683.01).
label: Description
content: This issue includes an article by journalist Henry Kisor of the Chicago Sun-Times entitled "An Instrument of Liberation: A modem was Henry Kisor's liberator from a lifetime of lip-reading, relayed communications and unavidable feelings of helplessness." According to the article , Kisor became "totally deaf 39 years ago at the age of three."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Hayward
topic: label: Subject
content: Hearing Loss
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: S.A. & G.M. Trotter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.3125.13.9
label: catalog number
content: 1986.3125.13.9
label: nonaccession number
content: 1986.3125
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 11 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 29.21 cm