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Electronic News reflects on how funding for medicine has built the computer industry.

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"Medicare is the computer manufacturer's friend," cites the trade journal.

The two sectors that most contribute to the rise of computer technologies in this era are the military and healthcare, where, often, they are one and the same. Military contractors are often paid to develop medical technology. One example is the foreign body locator, a technology for locating items in the body through imaging, which is developed by Fairchild Space and Defense and patterned after their mine locators.