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(Score: 2) by ese002 on Wednesday November 01 2023, @02:24AM (2 children)
When I was a child, hardly any individuals and only large companies had any kind of electronic computer. Restaurants, grocery stores, and most shops relied on mechanical adding machines. Pen, paper, and hand calculations ruled. People got excited about 4-function calculators.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday November 01 2023, @02:07PM (1 child)
Even for relatively small companies, I bet the uptake of computers was relatively fast. Sure, there's always been the technophobes, but not needing to do everything by hand was a major time saver. Especially, if you had any sort of complex backend.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Informative) by ese002 on Wednesday November 01 2023, @06:32PM
It actually took a while. Early microcomputers were expensive, unfriendly and had limited business useful software. Small business owners were often reluctant to spend the time and money to convert when they already had a system that worked.