Small is not necessarily beautiful — or is it? The case for microcomputers

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My brief is to argue the case for microcomputers. I suffer the disadvantage of putting my case before you first—but, for many of you, I am sure, there is simply no argument at all — microcomputers are a vital and necessary adjunct to our lives and our work. Thus I am probably primarily addressing the sceptics amongst you, the non‐believers and non‐users. Since there are so many advantages, benefits, features and uses of the micro or personal computer and since I cannot possibly hope to catalogue, document and discuss all these in the brief time allotted me, I have prepared some overhead transparencies which may serve to put them into some logical order for you.