A Newspaper? On a PC? That's Crazy Talk

I discovered this lovely bit of media history in Sam Grobart's New York Times technology blog.

He writes ... "Since it’s the weekend, here’s something just for kicks that’s been making the rounds: In 1981, San Francisco TV station KRON aired a news segment about how a select group of computer users were getting their daily copy of the San Francisco Examiner not on paper, but on their home computer (!). The best part comes about one minute into the clip, when one of the Examiner’s editors explains that the paper is “not in this to make money.”