Before iPad And Apple A Pictorial History Of Computers

BEFORE the iPad and apple made computing into a thing for posers and the superficial, the machines were going to save the world. They would feed penguins. They would mow the lawn. They would launch rockets and play chess. Remember Commodore Computers and the ZX Spectrum? We do. We’ve put together an archive of pictures of how computers used to be sold to the masses. It’s was high-tech boffinry. It as in black and white…

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17 year-old Barbara Rawlinson of Islington finds the many dials and controls of the Fairey Multi-Purpose Electronic Analogue Computer rather horrifying at the exhibition.

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Posted: 31st, May 2010 | In: Technology Comment | TrackBack | Permalink