They'd also immediately recognize what the tablet was, and anyone who was familiar with The Mother of All Demos or Xerox PARC's work would recognize the linage.

They'd also immediately recognize what the tablet was, and anyone who was familiar with The Mother of All Demos or Xerox PARC's work would recognize the linage. And wonder why the UI was so inconsistent ^_^. As for ICs, the "standard" 7400 series dates back to the mid-60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400_series They'd be impressed by the surface mounting, but that's not a great leap from through hole DIPs. They'd be really impressed by the CPU, since computing resources were so hard to get back then, but putting it all on a single chip is obvious, and e.g. the 4004 dates back to late 1971. Even DRAM dates back to the mid-60s (IBM), with the 1103 (Intel's first DRAM, a whopping 1024 bits) being sold stating in late 1970 (albeit with low yields for a while).