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Johnson started out playing computer games on an Apple II, but then "those got shoved in the file cabinet." He began computerizing all his farm records, which was not easy. "We could keep track of the hogs we sold in dollars, but we couldn't keep rack of them by pounds and numbers at the same time." He started shopping around and finally acquired a $12,000 combination at a shop in Lafayette, Ind.: a microcomputer from California Comput er Systems, a video screen from Ampex, a Diablo word printer and an array of agricultural programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Moves In | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

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