2 Jul
2006
2 Jul
'06
1:34 p.m.
Seth Morabito wrote:
BBC has a series, "Look Around You", a
comedy program based on late
1970s and early 1980s educational programming. Season two included an
episode called "Computers", and featured these two fake "home
computers".
I assume that these are genuine British classic computers that the
producers painted and re-badged for television.
Totally made up for the show, AFAIK. There are a few genuine 80's micros to be
spotted in there, though! I keep meaning to try and find out what happened to
the Bournemouth prop - it'd be an amusing thing for the museum to have on
display...
The cursor area on Bournemouth's keyboard closely resembles the RML 480Z - and
I'm sure some genuine machine has used a row of 4 smaller keys like in that
photo too (although it's possible I'm thinking of the CBM +4's function keys,
in which case they're actually a different size)
(incidentally I found the first series a lot more funny - somehow it seemed
closer to how I remember those 80's schools shows, whilst being completely
insane :-)
cheers
Jules