Sony Corp has announced a Personals line of automation devices in the US, including an Intelligent liquid crystal diode display cassette recorder that displays the time, date and title of a meeting, and has a built-in timer; an ultra-small speech activated microcassette recorder with tie clip microphone and remote start-stop; a microcassette transcriber-recorder with built-in microphone, supplied foot control and headset, and a microphone jack; a one-line plain paper pocket copier with ribbon and rechargeable battery; and a compact digital message centre with remote control, toll saver, private message, and remote room monitoring; all arrive in July and the TCM-27 LCD Cassette Recorder and M-88V Microcassette Recorder are $160 and $190 respectively, the M-2000 Microcassette Transcriber-Recorder, HCP C10 Pocket Copier and TAU-10 Digital Message Center are to be offered at $275, $160 and $130 respectively.
