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13 days agoThe aim of the device is to absorb electronically the reporter’s original story, retain it in a computer, and eliminate all the retypings that now occur as a piece of writing makes its way from reporters through bureaus to the home offices to the desks of editors & eventually to linotype machines.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1975/02/10/the-p-1800 (paywall)
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