> Pop music and electronic data in 1988
> LINK · '1988: Pop, Shops and Personal Data' from the BBC Archive)
A half hour programme from the ever reliable BBC Archive showing how the weekly top ten used to be gamed, how computerisation put an end to that, and what those computers were actually like.
It also explains why some singles I have from the time have the catalogue number very clearly printed at the very top of the sleeve. The store staff had to type that number into the computer for every sale.