PI's 45th ANNIVERSARY -- From Art To Science

One of the biggest technology stories of the year was the introduction of "digitized text" in phototypesetting. Varityper created a stir with its "floppy disk" (quotes original to the story) link between one of its phototypesetting systems and an advanced word processing system. The ability to capture keystrokes in the process of text creation on a word processor was considered a major development in page composition.