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1957 was a momentous year in computing. Not because that was the year the computer was invented - that particular year is hotly contested amongst computer historians and probably lies somewhere around the end of the 1930s and early 1940s -- nor is it the year that a use for the computer other than for military purposes was conceived. That happened a further 10 years before. It was not the year that the world's first office computer began running payroll programs. The original LEO computer had been running that for the previous 5 years. |
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It was the year of acceptance by the world that a computer could be used for trade and commerce rather than plotting the trajectory of a missile to its target.
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It was the year of the first dot-matrix printer that allowed lay-people to read the output of computers - previously the preserve of mathematicians and computer programming engineers, and the year the first computers were sold that were used purely for their commercial value in an office environment.
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Today these uses of computers affect all of us in our daily lives and we tend to take them for granted, but in the 1950s this was radical thinking.
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