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Most corporations cannot decide on a website font in 15 meetings and this team made working microchips back in the day... smh
That’s a great read.

> The equivalent of seven 2966 computers were engaged round the clock, seven days a week, for over six months to help us complete the design.

The ICL 2966 was a British mainframe introduced in 1984. The last one is at The National Museum of Computing and that’s quite an interesting project in itself.

https://www.tnmoc.org/icl-2966