Griffith (Part IV): On the tech beat
By Phil Sim in Media News on Tuesday, 14th March 2023 at 1:23amThis is Part IV and the final instalment in Influencing Tech’s special series, chronicling the career of Chris Griffith, The Australian's former senior technology reporter. Click here for Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3.
Even back as a general news reporter back in his Sunday Mail days, Chris Griffith was still able to stumble into a good old tech scoop.
“There was a time when, if you were in the tech industry, what would you do on a Sunday morning? You’d go out to the Sunday morning tech markets, and I use to go out with Ray Shaw (currently Cybershack’s reviews editor) and you’d go to one of the schools in your area and you could get all these second-hand parts - there might 400 old screens for $20 each and you could build a computer for like $100.”
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