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i'm rehydrating my 20 year old readings on cybernetics, with some history i didn't know of back then.
TIL stafford beer and dozens of chilean programmers and engineers built a cybernetic economy simulation computer and software, designed to help coordinate/plan Chile's manufacturing sector and economy in 1975. it ran custom software on an IBM 360, which collected data from 500 telex machines, operated by factory employees.
the control room, designed by gui bonsiepe, is a modernist wonder to behold (this illustration is uncredited)
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