Allende's Strange Plan to Connect Chile, Long Before the Internet
Allende's Strange Plan to Connect Chile, Long Before the Internet
By
John Bartlett
Prior to the coup, an early computer network sought to more closely monitor Chile's economy.
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SANTIAGO — “We all knew the coup was coming, we just didn’t know when,” said Raúl Espejo, who in 1973 was an enthusiastic young engineer at CORFO, Chile’s national development agency.
The CORFO team pressed ahead...
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