Among the noisily and cheerfully advertised products were computers, tires, comic books, women's clothing, supermarket chains, watches, copying machines, newspapers, automobiles.

Besides books and money to ship them, libraries need cataloguing and other equipment, like typewriters, copying machines, personal computers and microfilm readers.

On the block was office furniture, typewriters, sofas, rugs, garbage pails, copying machines, law books, trays and other assorted gewgaws.

Powers include flight, an underside scanning laser that can emit explosive energy and be used to copy machines, speed, and machine gun arms.

"My husband repairs copy machines," said Karen Tyler, 35, a middle school teacher from Clinton, a small city south of Raleigh.

Support from Canon includes financial contributions and donations of imaging equipment; including cameras, copying machines and digital radiography devices, as well as volunteer activities.

The shift makes room for a watermark-shaped image, which is undetectable to copying machines.

He copied machines that were already in use by the Dutch spinners.

In previous decades, it was dictaphones, electric typewriters, copying machines, fax machines and computers.

The New York-based Soros Foundation, for instance, gave about $10,000 worth of computers, copying machines and other equipment.