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Why did old PCs have key locks? [LGR Retrospective] (youtube.com)
2 points by ZeljkoS on April 25, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The first key-locked computer I saw was in 1974. I believe it was a North Star computer which was big at the time. As far as I could see, it was just a vanity thing.




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