communications and the colour tv Flashcards

1
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post office tower(now BT tower) opened in london in?

A

1965= as centrepiece of Britain’s new telcommunications network

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2
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first ‘small’ computers allowed?

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developments in research, by 1970 informatin could be transferred by floppy disk

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3
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when did colour tv arrive in Britain by

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1967 even though colour film + photography already existed
-only BBC2 transmitted colour television until 1969 when BBC1 + itv did same

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4
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many rushed out to buy?

A

new tv to view apollo 11 land on the moon in colour

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5
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by 1969 how many colour TV sets were being used in Brutush households

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200,000

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6
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by what year were colour tvs easily outselling black and white?

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by 1975

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