Watching "The Deal" on Freeview ...

[moorfield]

Tony Blair circa 1983 seems to have a very high spec laptop on his office desk.

A cock up methinks, or was he a time traveller from the future?

[Sysman]

Highly unlikely that it's accurate. He professed to be IT illiterate in his early days as PM.

[NickFitz]

Highly unlikely that it's accurate. He professed to be IT illiterate in his early days as PM.

That, and the fact that there was no such thing as a laptop in 1983

[minestrone]

That, and the fact that there was no such thing as a laptop in 1983

We had an Epson HX-20 before 83 I think.

Still have it.

[xoggoth]

Yeh. I had a ZX81. Sure that was a laptop of sorts.

[NickFitz]

We had an Epson HX-20 before 83 I think.

Still have it.

Indeed, that was certainly a laptop. I was thinking of the modern clamshell laptop, which was what the thingy moorfield referred to looked like (screen up, too).

I suppose it could have been a GriD Compass, but one would have been more likely to have found one of those at NASA rather than in the office of a junior and technically illiterate MP.