"Stephen Hawking: The Universe Within," tape of physicist Stephen Hawking using a speech synthesizer to recount his career. MIT Professor Dennis Klatt identified the synthesizer as a PROSE 2000 from Telesensory Systems, Inc. (This tape is proprietary to Carolina Biological Supply Company and copies must be obtained from them) (SSSHP 95)

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