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Computers in Class
Episode 6 of 12
Hannah Fry describes some 1980s efforts to inspire Britain to embrace computing, the birth of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Micro and computers in schools.
As the manufacturing industries of the 1970s became the service sector of the 1980s, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ tried to help democratize the coming of the affordable microchip, to help re-equip a vulnerable workforce for a digital future.
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Computer Literacy Project was aimed initially at adults, but somehow ended up putting a beige ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Microcomputer in the corner of nearly every classroom in the land.
Presented by Hannah Fry
Produced by Alex Mansfield.
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Mon 21 Sep 2015
13:45
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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