FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE

APRIL 26, 1939

ONE of the prejudices against living in flats is the feeling that there is ‘something immoral and disreputable’ about them, said author Anthony Bertram, at the Housing Centre in London yesterday. He added that many people look upon flats as slightly suspicious places, inhabited only by actresses, peers and foreigners.

APRIL 26, 1966

WITHIN ten years it may be possible for the small businessman to dial a telephone number to use a computer. English ElectricLeo-Marconi told experts in London that it had begun building a multi-access computer that up to 200 people could use simultaneously. Mr John Aris, an English Electric executive, said the new computer was the forerunner of the plug-in computer for the man in the street.