I loved watching this series when I was a kid. It was broadcast here in the US on my local PBS station. I remember this episode well. Ah, the memories.
@BikerBytes5 жыл бұрын
I remember after watching programs such as this, Whizz Kids and the movie War Games nagging my dad to get me a modem for my BBC computer so I could access Prestel and other bulletin boards back in early 80s. As a 13 year old nerd in his bedroom this was impressive cutting edge tech 😎
@Innesb5 ай бұрын
I helped to build a network for BBC Micros in 1984. I was 16, and the installation was for secretarial training. At that time, I was a 1st year engineering apprentice in the training school, and knew more about computers than any of the computer trainers!
@messthetics10 жыл бұрын
Shame none of this caught on
@mikekaraoke5 жыл бұрын
LMAO you Joker
@quemlar6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories. I remember watching this on Sunday mornings. I had an Elk back then.
@johnknight91504 жыл бұрын
Show off.
@palto5672 жыл бұрын
23:17 best part
@ukipwarrior11 жыл бұрын
dawn of the internet
@ms-ex8em2 жыл бұрын
look at that massive tv set (behind him) look at the brown tv set its a massive monster look!!
@rhysjj11 жыл бұрын
As I recall, the program broadcast at the end advertised an upcoming two-hour special on BBC1, called 'Micro Live'. Yes, it was live, and it's possibly best known today for the BBC's Telecom Gold mailbox being hacked live on air...
@mikekaraoke5 жыл бұрын
Yea but that two hour special and then the episodes it followed afterwards for "Micro Live" didn't air till Oct of 1983 as Ian said as they were still filming the episodes
@paulneeds10 жыл бұрын
Good old days... 15:40 on...
@alexbaker45962 жыл бұрын
“Making the most of your establishment connections more like!”
@Innesb5 ай бұрын
LOL. For anyone wondering what this is about, search for the BBC movie “Micro Men” (2009). At the time of posting, it’s available on KZbin. It’s a great watch.
@seprishere3 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, instant messaging is now a much bigger deal (though it is store-and-forward still anyway, plus we all have always-on connections rather than paying per minute as we did with dial-up).
@ms-ex8em3 жыл бұрын
how can some1 look inside this program called a terminal program (how to list it all out)??? does any 1 know? thanks.....
@MrFaceHead11 жыл бұрын
They should broadcast more ear piercing electronic screechy noises nowadays.
@gammawave51096 жыл бұрын
they did & they called it "Techno"
@luisluiscunha5 жыл бұрын
@@gammawave5109 , 😀
@BBC60010 жыл бұрын
Anyone actually try the program at the end on their BBC Micro?
@snoballuk9 жыл бұрын
I did back when the show was originally broadcast. Can't remember what it did, aside from it being some message.
@malcolmcampbell19685 жыл бұрын
Liar
@luisluiscunha5 жыл бұрын
Also interested in this 😊... Could someone try it. I will, if I find some time and an emulator
@monetize_this83305 жыл бұрын
I remember a different show on CH4 that had a Spectrum file at the end credits. Probably still have the cassette but no means of loading it anymore.
4 жыл бұрын
@@monetize_this8330 if you have a cassette player, audio cables and a modern computer, you may convert it to a programme for a ZX emulator.
@gan9e9 жыл бұрын
15:52 'TeleSoftware' would be barred under the current ISP filtering system in the UK
@johneygd7 жыл бұрын
The bbc net was the forunner of today's internet and that acoustic coupler adaptor sounds geniouse but you had to call that person first to tell him or het to put their phone on their acoustic coupler adaptor to send him a message another problem was it was sensitive to environmental noise and you cannot send to a group. That video adaptor for the computer sounds cool and it's cool to send hidden/ secret messages troughvia broadcasting channels trough a tv speaker or radio speaker via sound patterns and also in theory via qr patterns,bar code this is nsa proof too.
@Innesb5 ай бұрын
You’re technically correct that you would need to call another person to tell them to connect their phone to the acoustic modem, but that would be quite an unusual scenario in he 80s. The common scenario would be an end user dialling into a digital modem such as a bulletin board system (BBS). I was very lucky to have been given an old acoustic modem (300 baud) around 1985, and I was able to dial into BBSs (which answered automatically). I became good friends with the BBS operator (who was a teenager even younger than me), and I would dial in at prearranged times to communicate with another fiend who had an acoustic modem. I don’t know if I was just lucky, but I found the acoustic coupler to be very reliable, and rarely had dropouts. My grandfather worked for the GPO in the 70s, and I remember him telling me that he did indeed receive phone calls telling him to connect the modem, but I seem to recall that he patched the connection with a cable, not by placing a handset into a coupler.
@jms0198 жыл бұрын
BBCs had networking in the 80s. PCs barely did in the 90s
@Muzer08 жыл бұрын
+Jonathan Schneider Yeah, they did. It was very different to what we have today, but they had networking from pretty much when they were first released.
@Inaflap8 жыл бұрын
There was Novell Netware for MSDOS from the mid 1980s.
@jms0198 жыл бұрын
True but PCs didn't come with network interfaces until well into the 90s
@Inaflap8 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Schneider Which PC? PCs were often bespoke builds (as many are now). It would be a bit silly for Novell to have software without the corresponding hardware. I used networked PCs in the 1980s, on both Ethernet and Token Ring topologies.
@jms0198 жыл бұрын
Yes. My point is network CARDS including on the Compaq PIII I have from that era. Network hardware wasn't designed in and I had fun jumpering NE1000s/NE2000s whereas it definitely mentions econet on the back of BBCs. The first connected PCs I saw were 3270/PC/Gs. The BBCs in the same room did 3270 and had their own file servers
@chloedevereaux18015 жыл бұрын
but can it run crysis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes im first paahaaahaaahaaaaaaaaa