1986 BBC Broadcast Demonstrates Electronic Mail That Let You Send Instant Messages from a Foreign Payphone

Lesley Judd stepped off a plane at Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam carrying a chunky portable computer and a small device called an acoustic coupler. In December 1986, most people had never heard of electronic mail. Micro Live, the BBC’s weekly technology program, set out to change that by following Judd as she showed exactly how [...]

1986 BBC Broadcast Demonstrates Electronic Mail That Let You Send Instant Messages from a Foreign Payphone
Lesley Judd stepped off a plane at Schiphol Airport near Amsterdam carrying a chunky portable computer and a small device called an acoustic coupler. In December 1986, most people had never heard of electronic mail. Micro Live, the BBC’s weekly technology program, set out to change that by following Judd as she showed exactly how [...]

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