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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday November 01 2023, @02:07PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday November 01 2023, @02:07PM (#1331109) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by ese002 on Wednesday November 01 2023, @06:32PM

    by ese002 (5306) on Wednesday November 01 2023, @06:32PM (#1331147)

    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.