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Note that it shows a lot of women using the computer. So much for "advertising drove women away".
by facepalm 10y ago
Note that it shows a lot of women using the computer. So much for "advertising drove women away".
- jandrese 10y agoIt shows lots of secretaries using the computer. It's clearly something the boss bought to get fancy graphics on his reports that the secretary is typing up.
- FrancoDiaz 10y ago"Bosses" back then couldn't even type.
- madengr 10y agoI can type with two fingers; does that count? I blame that on having a C64 as my first computer, with it's horrible keyboard.
- FrancoDiaz 10y agoThat C64 keyboard was heavy, IIRC.
- jandrese 10y agoThe best (worst) part is that you couldn't even swap the keyboard out for a different one, because the keyboard was the computer. I do miss having all of those drawing characters on the front of the keys though. C64 character art was the best. It's kind of a shame that the IBM-PC character set won out with its all international and business friendly characters instead of the cool art characters.
- facepalm 10y agoRight - because if they are women, they have to be secretaries, whereas the men are technicians? What about the teen girls that are also shown in the catalogue - training to be secretaries at an early age?
- jandrese 10y agoYou are aware this catalog is from 1981 right?
- facepalm 10y agoThat's the point - there is this meme going around that supposedly women lost interest in computing because of advertising in the 80ies. Never mind that the whole field of computing changed with the advent of home computers and PCs.
- mixmastamyk 10y agoThis was a year or two before the "computers are for young geeky white boys" (whizkids2) meme got started. Note the grey hairs as well.