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Beginning of the end

Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, July 10th, 2009 - 3 comments
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American news report from 1981 about the coming age of “newspapers by computer”. Classic.

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3 comments on “Beginning of the end”

  1. StephenR 1

    I thought for a sec that she was doing to do air quotes when saying ‘computer’ at the start…turns out they were a bit further along thatn that but who gives a damn.

  2. Brilliant – loved seeing this. I remember at school a few years earlier, “the” computer was stored in a cupboard and wheeled out for use by the uber math geeks.

    I got my first computer in 1987 I think – an Amiga 500. The memories :)

  3. infused 3

    Very cool

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