2 Jul
2006
2 Jul
'06
12:07 p.m.
Alright, I admit it. I'm stumped.
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".
The Bournemouth ("The most powerful computer in Britain"):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/wallpaper/images/1600/
bournemouth.jpg
The Petticoat 5 ("The first computer designed just for women"):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/lookaroundyou/wallpaper/images/1600/
petticoat.jpg
I assume that these are genuine British classic computers that the
producers painted and re-badged for television. But what are they?
-Seth
2 Jul
2 Jul
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
1:55 p.m.
On 2/7/06 21:34, "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
Seth Morabito wrote:
When the archives come back up you can search for the discussion we had
about them back then. Didn't we decide bournemouth was *probably* based on a
TRS80 with at least 2 different keyboard components and the petticoat was
totally fabricated from scratch? I remember having a rootle around for
pictures of the floppy drives in bournemouth afterwards because I don't
remember ever seeing any with a nice icon of the floppy disk on it, or the
'0' and '1' designations.
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... (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 :-)
I think the reason the second series wasn't so funny is because it was much
better produced and realised, like they'd put more effort into accurately
spoofing 'Tomorrow's World' rather than just going for laughs like the
'perfect eggy' in the first series. You've reminded me I've got a DVD of
the
first series for Sellam here somewhere.....
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
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