Does anyone know what computer this is? I am stumped. (This is from a 1984 BBC programme, if that helps narrow it down.)pic.twitter.com/lB9WMDRWJK
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I scraped the bottom of the Internet and found a brochure of the early version of Wordplex, complete with awkward/sexist photos and an earlier colour scheme of the keyboard. It very much screams 1976. THE SCOPE OF THIS SYSTEM IS GOVERNED ONLY BY THE LIMITS OF YOUR CREATIVITYpic.twitter.com/VnL4FRLJ3Y
This feels overall like a fascinating corporate story: · Ventek renamed itself to Wordplex · AES merged with Ventek, but then split away again? · Wordplex started in California, then moved to Canada, but was mostly popular in the UK and had all engineering offices there?
I will shut up now. I know none of this really matters… but it’s fun to research something in depth.
Another cool ad, from 1978, found by @dasbub.
(Hilariously, the marketing phrase “the last word in word processing” was very popular, used by at least two more companies, including Apple.)pic.twitter.com/fMjsb9Zjhh
Oh, look, an obscure ad with the very same version of the computer as the original tweet! (I can quit this thread any time I want…)pic.twitter.com/mEuZppAnoi
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