Wow. What a trip.

Reminds me of our humble technological past. My desktop machine IS a "Personal Mainframe," even though it's not state-of-the-art by any means.

I can see the logic of an IBM Selectric typewriter with the Datatype with DF-2 sticking barcodes above human-readable english so that it can be scanned: Remember, this was long before the Microsoft revolution; Innovation was the rule before we all converged on "standard" thinking.

This is a catalyst in a way. I feel like it has some of the same texture of the movie "Moog", in which the director conveys a beautiful sense of entrprenuerial spirit of the '70s. Although the movie speaks of the roots of synthesized music, I can't help but to think that it says a whole lot more about the tipping point of technology as we know it today.