From time to time, I’ll be posting these “Special” blogs, which only indirectly relate back to a Computer Chronicles episode. Basically, a “Random Access” item or an offhand reference made during a show will send me down an interesting rabbit hole. But since the normal posts are long enough, I thought it made sense to segregate these tangents into their standalone posts.

Space-Age Technology for the Retail Makeup Counter

For this first special, I want to expand upon this “Random Access” item from the last episode I covered, which aired in March 1985: