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Ed Smith, an engineer who worked on the APF MP-1000 (1978) video game console and Imagination Machine (1979), tours the musuem's video game collections. 
Fellowship recipient Neil Lerner from Davidson College in North Carolina visits The Strong to research the sounds of pinball machines. 
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