New technology offers electronic mail, less paper use, and computer generated financial reports in a digital workspace.
The latest in office technology is on display at the Decktown exhibition.
If you're one of those who has become infatuated with things electronic, then here's the place for you. It's called Decktown and it's Digital's office of the future.
Peter Spencer shows how computer office technology allows a user to design a new logo and send it to a colleague via electronic mail. Raymond Breen explains how an office computer can also correlate and analyse sales figures presenting the findings in a graph format ready for the boardroom.
Derek McHugh explains the cost of fitting out an office with personal computers and word processors which vary depending on the size of the business.
The Digital company have bases in Galway and Clonmel and believe many of the components they need to manufacture computers could be made in Ireland. Antoinette Kelly and Cyril O'Rourke from Digital would like to hear from manufacturers who might be able to make or assemble component parts.
Derek McHugh says that while the computer serves an important function in the office, it is by no means a replacement for people.
The idea is to improve efficiency and to improve productivity.
He also reassures people that there is no cause for concern regarding banks of personal information being held on computers and says there is talk of legislation to control access to data.
It's far easier to take a file out of a filing cabinet than it is to take a file of information from a computer system.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 7 March 1984. The reporter is Jacqueline Hayden.
