Apple iPhone
The journey finishes with the Apple iPhone, seen here surrounded by the different devices whose functions are packed into the handset.
In the exhibition the iPhone represents today's generation of smartphones that are able to combine touchscreen, handwriting and speech recognition with the functionality of phones, PDAs, games consoles, cameras, TVs, MP3 players, DVD players and sat-nav devices.
The National Museum of Computing's (TNMOC) Jones said: "We have gone full circle from the PDP-8 to the smartphone and netbook, it means that today you have got your email, the internet and everything that you need in your hands."
Photo credit: Nick Heath/silicon.com
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The BBC Micro has a picture of a Dragon 32 on it. [nt]
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