In 1986 Amstrad had a brilliant idea and brought out a package of keyboard, screen and printer.
No need to worry about which piece matched what, so as we had no experience with computers we bought the package like many other people who had been faltering on the brink.
On the day it arrived we took it all out of its carton and placed it on our dining-room table. A knock came at the door : a lady wanted to ask us about the local Family History Society, so we invited her indoors.
Her first words were, “I see that you have a computer link to Somerset House where all the birth, marriage and death information from 1837 for all of England and Wales is kept!”
If only we had known how to to use a computer at that point, and if only what she said had been true about the link which still does not exist. We often laugh about that day.