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This article provides an overview of how the city of Long Beach, California, addressed the problems associated with implementing an automated office system, their current status in this implementation and their future plans. As a result of the session about the three-day education and planning session on office automation, an Automated Office System is approved in 1982. The result of the efforts in implementing a city-wide Automated Office System, the following observations like training support, multi-function work stations, facility impact, automated office technology and start at the top are worth sharing with other organizations that is contemplating the same thing.

The article reports that Master Specialty Co. in Costa Mesa, California, is developing talking calculators and computers for the blind. A model is now available for about $565. The device is only slightly bigger than a handheld calculator. It can determine square roots, fixed squares and percentages aside from the usual mathematical operations.