not quite a laptop

[Phil]

BBC - Archive - Tomorrow's World - Tomorrow's World | Nellie: School Computer

 

[Phil]

whatever happened to tomorrows world?

 

[steve-the-hat]

whatever happened to tomorrows world?

It became today's world - or possibly yesterday's.

Do you remember when they predicted electricity from nuclear stations would become so cheap it wouldn't be worth metering it?

They also predicted that by 1990 our biggest problem would be what to do with all our free time.

Yeah right!

 

[Knobhead]

My god that printer brings back memories. Our Teletype desk linked to a Feranti Argos 1000 sounded like a machine gun.