An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company

[Joshua Rice]

Commodore in the USA/CANADA was often pressed into service for a cheap
text video overlay for broadcast TV. Was that TV overlay ever used in
the UK or Europe?
Ben.


In the UK, Acorn gear was used quite a bit for overlays and computer 
generated graphics. I think the Amiga was used to a certain extent in 
commercial and small-enterprise video production, but the BBC almost 
exclusively used RISCPC and BBC Micro's for their graphics.





The Centre for Computing History (a Cambridge based museum) did a great 
video on the old Acorn broadcast gear used by the BBC


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exW-LbLRJV0 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exW-LbLRJV0>


Josh Rice


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