2026-04-28 18:40 UTC
Social attitudes varied in the early days of the home computer revolution.
From MicroComputer Printout, June 1981. (Address redacted with an abundance of caution, even though it’s highly unlikely that this man—who couldn’t be more clearly in his sixties—is still alive 45 years later.)
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@retrohistories@digipres.club 2026-04-28 19:02
I don't think anyone's going to lose their job because your neighbour bought a ZX81, dude.
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@csilverman@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 19:29
@retrohistories@digipres.club I do like the image of a 105-year-old guy starting every morning by sitting down at his 1899 Underwood typewriter—at 7am sharp and not a second later—and hammering out the day's outraged letters to various publications.