This was Europe's first home computer terminal
Posted by Videodrome on Friday, Apr 15, 2011
Back in 1967, BBC’s wonderful Tomorrow’s World looks at Europe’s first home computer terminal, which was “cheaper to rent than today’s telephones”:
Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex Malik (pictured above), it includes an electric typewriter and can send and receive messages, update his diary and check his bank balance. Even his four-year-old son Nicholas can use it to work out basic maths problems. Can we expect a computer like this in every home in the future? Time will tell.
Soon, soon.
Related:
The Internet Today, As Imagined When the Internet Was Born.
How The Very First Computer Died Alone, In Obscurity, in the 1940s
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