Playboy After Hours
May, 1981
Stroke of GeniusTwo years ago, workers at the Herrick Hospital in Berkeley, California, treated an anonymous stroke victim--a mysterious fellow with an artificial leg. Dubbed Long John Silver by the staff, the paralyzed patient has been able to communicate with hospital employees only by blinking. Hearing of the poor pirate's plight, the Holiday Project Mid-Peninsula Committee raised $4000 to buy him a special computer with a video screen bearing selected basic sentences. Each phrase, such as &q...
