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For decades Westerners ridiculed the notion of a Chinese typewriter, and the phrase itself became shorthand for an impossibly complex machine. Now a Stanford professor celebrates the accomplishment.
"Return them to their home countries!" flashed my iPhone home screen, accompanied by a red, scowling, furious emoji. The notification bubble came in reference to a 60-second TikTok video in which I had leaked word that my employer, Stanford University, had just acquired the single largest historical collection of modern Chinese information technology - largest not just in the United States, but the world. Containing more than 2,500 archival.
/PRNewswire/ The Thomas S. Mullaney East Asian Information Technology History Collection, a one-of-a-kind collection capturing an important part of IT.