{"id":100,"date":"2026-01-14T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/?p=100"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:59:29","slug":"whats-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/whats-old-is-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s old is new again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cHP Reimagines the Desk for the Future of Work\u201d shouts the headline on the HP website<\/a>. The tech giant has \u2018reimagined\u2019 the desktop PC with a:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cUnique, keyboard-based form factor\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

They are talking about the HP EliteBoard AI PC, which is a computer in a keyboard:<\/p>\n\n\n

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I became officially old when I started noticing cyclical events and ideas rebranded, rehashed and suggested as \u201cnew\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone who was around in the 80s knows that a computer in a keyboard is absolutely nothing new:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Amstrad CPC 464 6128 and 664 computers owned by Simon Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Do you remember it feeling strange when the computer was separate <\/em>from the keyboard? Just comment below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you want to see more reimagining of computers, then join us in June at the UKAG first ever Amstrad meetup<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Written by:<\/em>
Jo Cook<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHP Reimagines the Desk for the Future of Work\u201d shouts the headline on the HP website. The tech giant has \u2018reimagined\u2019 the desktop PC with a: \u201cUnique, keyboard-based form factor\u201d. They are talking about the HP EliteBoard AI PC, which is a computer in a keyboard: I became officially old when I started noticing cyclical … Continue reading What\u2019s old is new again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jo-lightbulbjo-cook","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/old-new-363484993.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukag.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}