Computer Portrait Operator’s Manual

1981

Ephemera

Pacific Novelty Mfg. Inc., Marina del Rey, California
Typescript manual, stapled
Dated 10/07/81

The Library Computer Portraits

Description

Pacific Novelty issued this typed manual in 1981 for its coin-operated Computer Portrait booth. A camera took an electronic snapshot, the machine digitized the face in eight gray levels, and a printer produced the portrait on a paper roll under a heading the operator could set for the location. Anonymous portraits from booths of this kind are in the collection.

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