Before '73 coup, Chile tried to find the right software for socialism

By Alexei Barrionuevo
The New York Times

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Cybersyn, a project that included a clunky mainframe computer and a network of telex machines, was in the early 1970s a part of an experiment to help manage Chile's economy.
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