
Isaac Asimov’s 1982 Ad for the TRS-80 Pocket Computer

Just another nerd.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly—it is completely honest.
–Isaac Asimov, Change! Seventy-One Glimpses of the Future, 1981, p.17.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly—it is completely honest.
–Isaac Asimov, Change! Seventy-One Glimpses of the Future, 1981
This is an early 1980s Radio Shack ad feature Isaac Asimov shilling for the Pocket TRS-80, whcih was really just a rebranded Sharp PC-1211.
Archive.org is hosting an 8-hour spoken word adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s The Foundation Trilogy. The audio adaptation was first aired on the BBC in 1972 and apparently has fallen into the public domain (though the books themselves still remain copyrighted).