Mad Men Offers Glimpse at 1960s Office Technology

Copy Machine — One of the first technology innovations we saw land at Sterling Cooper was a very large copy machine. Blogger Erika D. Price pointed out that after office manager Joan Holloway tells the secretaries that the imposing machine will make their jobs easier, it has an unforeseen effect. “… [T]hen, over the course of five seasons, we see the number of women at desks dwindle, getting smaller and smaller, until there is no secretarial pool at all. There’s just a few administrative assistants assigned to the higher ups.”