Photos: Computer fashions (it was acceptable in the 80s)
Compaqs supposedly portable computer
Launched in 1986, Compaq anticipated the trend to mobile computing with its Portable series. Inexplicably, the company chose John Cleese's brother-in-law - the chap in the scarf - to endorse it.
While trawling through the dustier recesses of the Computer Weekly archive, some stock shots of technology from the 1980s came to light, demonstrating just how much data processing - to say nothing of haircuts, fashion and gender relations - has changed over just two decades.
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