Before Alexa and the iPhone, there was the large and unwieldy mainframe computer.
Magazine ads and marketing brochures were designed to create a fantasy surrounding these machines for prospective clients: Higher profit margins Creativity unleashed Total automation With the invention of the microch.
To the public at large, they were on a rung that existed somewhere between engineering and science fiction.
In the postwar 1950s, computers were mostly used for aerospace and accounting purposes.
Before Alexa and the iPhone, there was the large and unwieldy mainframe computer