Office scenery...

Season 3:2 "Are We Not Men? :

I am very-much enjoying looking around the office while they are acting. In this episode, several times, there was featured prominently behind Moss (Aoyde) an Altair 8800, the VERY FIRST personal computer(1974), which came originally with an 8080 processor. It is in a blue case with the name 'Altair 8800' printed in the magnetic ink letters and numerals of an old fashioned cheque (to use the British spelling). The best shot is 55 seconds before the episode ends.

This was the first PC, you had to toggle in ~15 bootstrap instructions using the toggle switches on the front panel to load software off a cassette tape or maybe a tape reader or something, there was no such thing as a BIOS, if you were rich you could buy a 4KB RAM board for it and build a TV-Typewriter (16 lines of 32 or 64 characters each). Regular mortals could afford only 1KB RAM. Cost = $621 with no RAM (about $3500 today).

The Intel 8080 is >20 generations from the i7-6xxxx processors sold today and would run 400,000 instructions/sec at 2Mhz. The series went 8080, 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, pentium, pentium II, III, IV, pentium M, ..., core, core duo, core 2 duo, .... i5-520, ...i7-6900, .... The Altair 8800 invented the S-100 bus - the great great grandaddy of EISA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-100_bus

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IN other episodes i have seen ...
- Sinclair zx-81 computer (black calculator-style z-80 4x6", $99 in 1980)
- Commodore Pet (background of this episode, $595 - $795 in 1977) -