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        Berrows Newspaper, Worcester

        A computer brain producing 10,000 words a minute revolutionises Britain's oldest weekly newspaper.

        News 1975 7 mins

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        Overview

        The days of the clanking linotype machine are numbered. Despite protests from the print unions modernisation in the form of a new computer has arrived at the Berrow's Journal newspaper in Worcester. Bristling with modern innovations like punched tapes and sheets of bromide paper things will never be the same again. Although it may not have the brain the size of a planet this mighty calculating behemoth impresses as it spews out up to five hundred lines of copy a minute.