Benjamin Law

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327 appearances 4 recordings 2 series first heard May 2020 last heard 3d ago

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Is this an opportunity to get nerdy with you and talk about that?

So when did the notion that you could own your own personal computer first come into play generally?

machines essentially.

Sure.

So you've got these big computers and they are big.

They're for the community and they're used for niche purposes, I guess, like for research and things like that.

And they were also really expensive.

Is that right?

who have grown up with computers probably have a very distinct sense of what a personal computer looks like.

I'm sitting in front of several of them right now.

There's the monitor, there's the brains, there's a mouse, and there's a keyboard.

But what did the very, very first personal computers look like, Mel?

Okay, so that is like the proto-personal computer,

different to our understanding of PCs now.

So how radical was it at the time that you could even bring a computer into your house?

Times have changed indeed.

We all carry these things in our pockets, basically.

But then in the 1970s, you've got these big metal boxes, no screens, suddenly entering homes in California for the first time.

What were people doing with them?

What did they want them for?

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