hpr4571 :: Data processing retrospective
Lee talks to his Mum about her history with computers
Hosted by Lee on Monday, 2026-02-09 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
telex, typing, mainframe, databases, youtube.
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How I got into tech.
Started by monsterb, this series invites people to share with us how they found Linux. It has become traditional for first time hosts to share with us their journey to Linux. Indeed it has morphed to be way to share your journey in tech right up to your first contribution to HPR.
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 .