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