Chris Howland and the Microwriter


Sometimes you remember some shows that were on TV decades ago, and one of those shows featured Chris Howland explaining how a microwriterworks. If you google for it, you won’t find anything that I’m going to change with this post. Because Chris Howland was very interested in computers, and I found a small video after all, even if not the ancient video with Chris Howland, but from minute 7:19 the presenter tells about the microwriter and also about Chris Howland:

Invented at the end of the 70s, these devices were never able to catch on, which you may understand better when you see how they were to be used:

Using a Microwriter from Stanislav Datskovskiy on Vimeo.