How did office workers in the old days do their jobs? Vol. 2
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In Sazae-san, Masuo's desk doesn't have a computer.
Just a phone, a notepad, and a pencil.
So, how did office workers of that era do their jobs?
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This book features the real work experiences of two "office workers from the old days."
■ Bob (Akira Harada) / Joined Dentsu in 1974, Advertising Sales
Days spent calling each movie theater to confirm showtimes and walking engraved relief plates to newspaper companies. An era when buying a word processor at his own expense led to teasing like, "Did you buy a sewing machine?" The phrase "Information and communication is about repaying kindness and conveying trust" is particularly striking.
■ Ichiro Furuya / Joined a major electronics manufacturer in 1982, Corporate Sales
While delivering hundreds of millions of electronic components each month, all balance reconciliations of ledgers were done manually with an abacus and a calculator. OHP transparencies were handmade with a cutter and paints. When he first created colorful materials with PowerPoint 95, his boss asked, "Are you a street performer?" He took early retirement at 55 and is now fulfilling his high school dream of "traveling the world."
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This issue also features a special section with many comics and illustrations on the history of calculations and work tools.
From Napier's logarithms to Babbage's analytical engine, the birth of punch cards and IBM, the development race for Japanese word processors, and the advent of Excel, we meticulously trace the lineage of technologies that transformed work.
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【Bibliographic Information】
Format: A5 Modified
Page Count: 72 pages
Printing: Risograph printing
Binding: Hand-bound
Published by: DIY BOOKS (TOGL Inc.)
