HPR4571: Data processing retrospective
Hosted by Lee on 2026-02-09 00:00:00This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.
We start with Orwellian depictions of the future read about in the 1950/60s. Working in the 1970s at companies such as British Telecom and the L urgie . We hear about telex , mainframes with magnetic tape , type-writers , and the upskilling of the workforce by the labour-exchange . How did a cold and lack of a home telephone lead to businessmen arriving in a foreign land sans camels? Why were filing cabinets replaced by databases (or were they)? We hear about gaming from a home made version of Pong all the way to Alone in the Dark . Then modern times: we hear about some favourite youtube streams and discover that living in the 2020s is (just about) possible without a smartphone .
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