Muistelmia Turun Sanomien tietojenkäsittelyn alkuvuosilta

Tietokoneladonnan käynnistys Suomessa

Authors

• Timo Järvi University of Turku, Department of Future Technologies https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-4545

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33355/tw.90675

Abstract

The author was involved in the process of moving from manual to computerized typesetting in
a regional Finnish newspaper house during the years 1964-67. This was the first such project in Europe, a
few years behind similar projects in the USA. The paper describes the design and implementation of the
then new graphical applications, discusses programming on IBM 1401, and gives a few notes about the
newspaper’s mailing system’s redesign. A few reflections on the social impacts of the computerization
process are included.