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Mainframes and Management: A Glimpse into the Future of Corporate IT

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National Computer Conference 1979

By Richard Mills, Technology Correspondent, Technical Publishing Weekly, 1979

Last week, I attended the bustling halls of the National Computer Conference (NCC) 1979 in New York. As a journalist covering the world of technical publishing, I expected to see the usual array of minicomputers, storage tapes, and a few optimistic software vendors. Instead, I found myself witnessing what may well be the dawn of a new era: the corporate information system.

How the Advent of Office Automation is Reshaping Business: The 1970s Revolution

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1970s office workers using early automation equipment: typewriters, calculators, mainframe terminals.

Business in the 1970s is riding a transformative wave: the rise of office automation. With technology like electronic calculators, typewriters, dictation machines, and early computer terminals entering the corporate landscape, organizations are rethinking how work gets done. This emerging trend is rapidly altering traditional business processes—and laying the groundwork for the information age.