Sean Hallahan takes a nostalgic look at the British IT companies that hit the headlines back in the 1970s, and how many of them collapsed when Thatcher pulled the plug on state funding
THE HISTORY OF past 25 years is littered with the corpses of companies which, although only household names in the IT world, were certainly well enough known to merit the occasional article in the ...
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