It wasn’t just a high price that kept businessmen away from early portable computers.

Early on most men were adamantly opposed to purchasing a device for themselves that had a keyboard.  Throughout the 1950′s 60′s and 70′s, keyboards and typewriters were seen as secretarial work.

Questions to ponder: How have American gender norms changed since then?  Why have they changed?  

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