Online time sharing—a very big step forward
Maurice Vincent Wilkes · Electronics and Power · 1965
The multiple-access concept is causing a revolution in the use of computers. At the present stage of development it is possible for a researcher whose work requires a computer to log in to a central machine through a teleprinter and use it at his own convenience and his own speed, simultaneously with 30 other users in different locations. In fact, with further developments in time sharing, it may one day be possible to have computer-logic power distributed to every office and every home, in much the same way as electric power is distributed today.