I remember watching this series. It was one of the very few places to find out about computers then. It was Sunday morning around 10.30am on BBC1. I think it had a hard job to do back then introducing Mr or Mrs Average to computers. Today people grow up with them. Back then the only frame of reference was a pocket calculator and fanciful computers in dubious science fiction films. Also at the time people who worked in the computer industry were incredibly snooty about using computers for fun or games. They completely missed the point it was way to bring computers into society. Games played a huge role in educating people the basics of computing. When I was a computing student I remember one esteemed computer colledge lecturer who furiously and somewhat vindictively walked round the computer labs hitting escape when a student committed the sin of playing a simple game on a BBC Micro. There were many computer snobs about in the 80's. Progress made them extinct within a decade.
@dangerousmythbuster5 жыл бұрын
"The arm only speaks a kind of arm language." I guess I better use ARM then.
@jacobhn25 жыл бұрын
If you want to learn to program, I would recommend watching these programs they help to understand the basic and fun to see too
@i.george23215 жыл бұрын
come to london
@Jason_Black10 жыл бұрын
I do miss those days when TV journalists just happened to take rifles with them when interviewing computer technicians?
@henrybemis89136 жыл бұрын
Ironically packing a rifle during a show is needed now even more urgently than in 1982.......sad...
@mikeyo12346 жыл бұрын
These TV journalists knew the computer technicians were going to take over the world... I guess they were 'Sarah Connoring' it on up.
@robertusa12344 жыл бұрын
Of You show up at the BBC with a rifle today. It would cause a mass panic
@KingSlimjeezy4 жыл бұрын
that was sureal but a good analogy. He couldve taken it even further regaurding the steps that needed to happen to produce the gun and how those are analogous to the development of the computer
@SimmeringPotpourri Жыл бұрын
A firearm on a TV show didn't phase anything. Today if they did that someone would be....triggered. 😏
@Spacekriek2 жыл бұрын
I like the cut at around 15:02... same clothes, perfect transition from the studio to the workshop !
@Retrochild19797 жыл бұрын
Gosh I wish we all still talked as posh as the lady at 15:00
@jimsimpson1006 Жыл бұрын
Or even Chris Serle.
@Slarti4 жыл бұрын
15:53 "If I've got this drive shaft in my hand and I want another one..." now now don't be greedy ;)
@Spacekriek2 жыл бұрын
LOL !😄
@HazelTheHare10 жыл бұрын
"The modern computer with it's keyboard and it's television set"
@HelloKittyFanMan.4 жыл бұрын
What do you mean by "with it is keyboard and it is television set"?
@tjfSIM4 жыл бұрын
Hello Kitty Lover Man! Oh dear. The ‘eats, shoots and leaves’ brigade has arrived 🙄 You know perfectly well what he meant - was it worth highlighting such a minor error?
@patsavage12453 жыл бұрын
@@tjfSIM But they didn't do predictive text then. Your code had to be perfect.😉😉😉.
@asumjessen20138 жыл бұрын
see, this was back during a time when all TV presenters were required to have a gun on stage in case jimmy Savile entered the room
@henrybemis89136 жыл бұрын
I wonder who would shoot first....
@jimsimpson1006 Жыл бұрын
😂 now then, now then...
@DeKat-844 жыл бұрын
They should have programmed one of the computers to respond to "RUN" with "IN WHICH DIRECTION?" :-D
@carlybishop61604 жыл бұрын
"It is the holes in this card that insures that it plays this tune and not the National Anthem", hahaha. It makes it sound like it is a very patriotic piece of equipment which keeps playing the National Anthem on default unless told to do something else.
@TheStevenWhiting3 жыл бұрын
11:06 Only in the 80s could you get away with having a rifle on a computer show to demonstrate programming.
@videomaster85803 жыл бұрын
15:52 I think she wants a "Shaft" in her hand (childish laughter follows) lol.
@fredwestbuilding21554 жыл бұрын
23:23 Only two goldfish died in the making of that episode.
@probro98987 жыл бұрын
I never got what the deal with the owl was.
@crusader2.0_loading896 жыл бұрын
probro9898 BBC logo
@kannabi4 жыл бұрын
you have a hoot when you watch this
@saintus8883 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile we’re asking Siri for the weather
@HFamilyDad5 жыл бұрын
Must be annoying as hell when YT music copyright kicks in and gets the tune completely wrong.
@frederickbowdler8169 Жыл бұрын
They put this program over as if everyone was scared of change .
@KingSlimjeezy4 жыл бұрын
Get it? The Computer programme? The computer PROGRAM Its so funny because the two are same but different ohohohoh!
@tunggulsujarwob.archmba77514 жыл бұрын
Do you have to pay ads with your data, folks? Sometimes in just one video are intens and doubled (1 of 2 ads must be passed before video can be continue). We already pay that for videos. They should pay for their info that we dont ask nor needed. Not us.
@jasonking12845 жыл бұрын
15:54 ".. if i've got this driveshaft in my hand and I want another one...." guy was probably trying to avoid the implication..
@tjfSIM4 жыл бұрын
Jason King 😂 that was a funny and very unfortunate line
@TheRetroEngine4 жыл бұрын
I just have visions of Chris Morris in the IT Crowd speaking into the mouse
@ms-ex8em2 жыл бұрын
this computer (micro) bbc micro is one of the best in the world!! its other name was Proton and the other one was called Atom and Electron too!! the other one is Acorn Archimedes all from Acorn computers ltd 1987!!!!
@TheWeardale17 жыл бұрын
he loves saying - sub-routines..!
@shekbake43893 жыл бұрын
I wonder my macbook is named after our dear mac here
@johnknight91504 жыл бұрын
Looking at the music punch cards, if you've ever used a music programme like LMMS, it's almost exactly the same.
@johneygd7 жыл бұрын
Yeah so many computer languanges ,i can't even count, just insane.
@DeviantDeveloper3 жыл бұрын
Love the Kamikaze joke...
@nathaniliescutotherescue60472 жыл бұрын
How do you know when your friends have arrived at the door? Erm.....you listen for the door knock lol. Not the best analogy.
@ArgosWarrior4 жыл бұрын
The modern computer says NO!
@cptkerafreen38724 жыл бұрын
Can I buy the Computer Program. On DVD??
@TheStevenWhiting3 жыл бұрын
No, was never released. Which is why the copyright system on KZbin is bollocks. For a show that is no longer aired. You'll get the odd time where BBC will play it on BBC 4 but still.
@jimsimpson1006 Жыл бұрын
@@TheStevenWhitingtheres just one or two episodes of it on the BBC iplayer.
@therealchayd5 жыл бұрын
TIL G-code was invented in the 1950s
@i.george23215 жыл бұрын
15:15 that guy measures up a typewriter with a tape measure
@OhNoHesDrivenRoundIt4 жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure he was just checking the punch tape....
@mikeyo12346 жыл бұрын
He's writing spaghetti code, instead of using functions at 20 minutes in! Bad programmer alert!
@jimsimpson1006 Жыл бұрын
Yes, but in fairness, Basic spaghetti code was very common then.
@henrybemis89136 жыл бұрын
Thank goodness we have Windows now....imaging having to type in every instruction or command to your computer...now it is point and click
@mikekaraoke5 жыл бұрын
Yea was a pain doing that but also rewarding at the same time, Even though we got Windows a very long time after nearly 4 years later on: 20 November 1985 -I mean computer tech just kept advancing every couple of months!
4 жыл бұрын
10 PRINT "I don't know what you mean"
4 жыл бұрын
Joke aside, typing commands is still common occurence if you're using command line interfaces on Linux or if you're in the IT field.