Computers in Class

Computing Britain by BBC

Nov 16, 201514:25Technology

As the manufacturing industries of the 1970s became the service sector of the 1980s, the BBC tried to help democratize the coming of the affordable microchip, to help re-equip a vulnerable workforce for a digital future....

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