The IBM technicians used a crane to lift the machine through the window of Len Deighton’s Georgian mansion on the outskirts of London in 1968. The Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter, the IBM-MTST, ...

Numbers are not just a tool for analysis. Numbers also communicate. Once you’ve figured out the numbers for your story, the next step is to be able to use them clearly in your writing. No matter how ...

“My daddy really was a number runner, and as his daughter I helped him run numbers back and forth from school. It was illegal in those days, but New York state has now made it legal, so they’re in on ...