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captain queeg

(10,208 posts)
2. Cool. The one think all the futurists get wrong is clothing.
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 09:25 PM
Aug 2021

We expected high tech fabrics and body suits. But shorts and T-shirts are to most common

Stuart G

(38,436 posts)
5. I wonder if the future predicted...."A computer in every home & hand"....Maybe...the question was...
Fri Aug 20, 2021, 12:32 PM
Aug 2021

........What is a computer?

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
7. I bought my first PC around 1980.
Fri Aug 20, 2021, 07:13 PM
Aug 2021


A Wang 386. After the sale was completed the salesman asked
me "why would anyone want a computer in their home?"

That was in the Home Electronics Dept of a Montgomery Ward's store.

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