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Radio 4,2 mins

The 80s home computer boom

Computing Britain

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The UK had more home computers per head of population than anywhere else in the world in the early 80s. But many people weren’t quite sure what to do with them. Tomorrow’s World attempted a ground-breaking experiment in 1981 - the first computer program broadcast live on air.

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