Cutting edge of digital communications in 1980

In 1980, the MPR was on cutting edge of digital communications with its use of Teleram portable computers.

A later article than the one above explained that "with Teleram, a story is composed on the remote terminal screen. When it is in the form desired by the reporter, he calls a telephone number which goes directly into the MPR’s main computer. When the phone answers, the reporter puts his phone receiver into a special cradle, the Teleram talks to the main computer and story is filed into the newspaper’s front-end system in seconds.

"With Teleram, a story can be written, filed, edited, set into type and printed on the presses in minimal time."

Five years after this article appeared in the employee newsletter Pressing Matters, Teleram Communications Corp. went bankrupt. Although Teleram had been a pioneer in the portable computer business, analysts said it could not keep up with bigger companies with more market strength and cheaper, better computers.