I read today that it is 30 years since the launch of the IBM PC. It was massively expensive and only companies and people who were serious about computing could hope to afford one. Long before Windows, it saw the introduction of Microsoft's DOS (disk operating system). Who would have thought that 30 years later people would own multiple computers and be able to use a portable one on holiday, never mind carry a notepad around in their everyday life?
Even less likely, when it was launched 10 years before that, was that I would be able to listen to a TV show on the aforesaid laptop using clips from 1971 with other music recorded this week but played at the time of my choice (now) whilst working on the website. (The Old Grey Whistle Test).
And here is another "nobody would have thought this possible a few years ago". My Athletics Weekly will have been delivered at home but I have been able to read it online so that I am not as far behind as usual when the World Athletics Championships start in three and half hours time.
I have embedded three websites within the manxathletics.com site to ease your navigation.
With so much technology at their fingertips let's cross them and hope that Channel 4 do a great job - it has to be better than their presentations of the UK athletics before it reverted to the BBC.
The Channel 4 website looks good. Who would have thought we could replay the action, watch live on our phones or have adverts on the World Championships coverage?
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