Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today
The solution was so effective that the core technology developed—a lossless compression algorithm—is still in use today. Okay ...
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The best typography of the 1970s, as chosen by experts
The 1970s were a bold, transformative decade for design, and typography was no exception. As phototypesetting matured, ...
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Voyager's Scientific Toolkit
When Voyager left Earth in 1977, it carried scientific instruments that sent vast amounts of data back to Earth. This was mid-1970s technology that has weathered the decades and the harshness of ...
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Island life of the 1970s brought back on screen
It was an attempt to use cutting-edge video technology to chronicle the daily lives of people in the Western Isles. Cinema Sgire ran from 1977 to 1981 and involved training local people to use ...