Hard to believe, but two fearsome media megasauruses were once rather charming pen pals. On Friday, Amstrad founder Lord Sugar tweeted about a letter he received in 1990 from Rupert Murdoch. Thanking Sugar for the "wonderful Amstrad laptop" he had given to his (unspecified) son, Murdoch revealed that he was using it to produce "the first communication I have ever attempted on a computer". Sounding like a genial, bumbling uncle, Murdoch ended by saying "if I don't get better at this damned thing soon, I'll start blaming you!", adding a handwritten "this took me 90 minutes!". His subsequent misadventures with computer-related ventures are already foreshadowed.
