It at Work: The Mainframe and the Micro: From Dp to It

Synopsis: Traces developments in micro-electronics and information technology from the early 1970s. Specially shot film of 1960s valve-based computers is contrasted with today’s ‘supermarket’ approach to personal computers. Shows the changing uses of information technology in the business of Pearl Assurance. Interviewees filmed in the 1990s are contrasted with their views in the early 1980s.
Series: Living with Technology: A Foundation Course, Course T102
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1994
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Subjects: Information technology
Keywords: computers; history of technology; personal computers

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