ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the “minicomputer” era, from c. 1970 through 1982, as the PDP-8 and VDTs, CRTs and other early “dumb terminals” and small local storage capabilities were beginning to transform larger newsrooms. This chapter also reviews initial news-worker experiences with computers for editing and publication, and covers the use of scanners and optical-scan recognition technology, and how these did not, in fact, become dominant.
