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Why were computer bureau popular?

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In the 1960s and early 1970s computer time on mainframes and large minicomputers cost from $400/hour to $1000/hour. By timesharing one computer with many remote users instead of having to charge batch setup and postprocessing charges while only running one job on the computer at a time, they could make the cost of computing more economical to more people.

There was much discussion at the time of actually setting up Computing Utilities, that operated the Power or Phone Utilities.

The microprocessor kinda killed that idea.

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