Harvard’s 1983 Experiment with Coin-Operated Word Processors (Inside Higher Ed)

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Harvard’s 1983 Experiment with Coin-Operated Word Processors (Inside Higher Ed)

"The other day I came across a higher ed tech experiment that I’d never before heard about. Coin-operated word processors."—Source: Inside Higher Ed

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This story has levity and it will probably make you smile. (I loved it.) But there is a more meaningful narrative. Many of these ideas and quotes from 1983 are still highly applicable in 2018. Why is the UX of campus technology still so illusive? —Eduwire Editors