In Winter Olympic Games 1960, an IBM 305 RAMAC, an early IBM computer, was used for first time in Olympics to provide electronic data processing.
The officials, unsure as to whether a skier had missed a gate in the men's slalom, asked CBS-TV if they could review a videotape of the race. This gave CBS the idea to invent the now ubiquitous "instant replay."
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