Happy Fathers Day

85/404 Personal computer, micro computer, PC-XT, hardware 5 and manuals 2, original packaging, plastic, metal, glass, electrical components, paper,...

Wishing all the Dads a very Happy Fathers day today. We thought we would have a bit of fun on Photo of the Day and take you back to the 80s with the video below

This video titled ‘Dad’s Day’ was produced by the Powerhouse for the opening in 1988 to show how “an ordinary dad” uses computers in his daily life. Twenty four years later we thought we would dust it off for Fathers Day. Nowadays we take it for granted that computers are integral to daily life. Back then it was surprising that computers were part of so many activities.

Post by Kathleen Phillips, AV producer/scriptwriter
Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
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Tags: 1988, 80s, computers, disc, Fathers Day, video

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.