I love the phrase "space age technology".. :)

This is more surreal than "Look Around You" 🤣

"That is good news for us housewives as we will be able to leave our kitchens and find the cheapest prices via the GPO system." I soon got myself a TRS 80 and haven't been near the kitchen since.

I had to do my library job on an IBM Selectric typewriter in 1977. We had one Tandy computer at the check out desk. It was amazing how much it simplified the check out process. We had it programmed so it automatically printed an updated list of overdue books at ten am.

This was a very well presented section on BBC's Pebble Mill. Just think of all of the things that could have gone wrong on live television with having 3 clunky 70's computers and doing a demo on one while a program loads from cassette on another... especially with the PET 2001's hit-and-miss chiclet keyboard! This was years before the BBC's 'The Computer Program' and 'Micro Live' - Bravo to the Pebble Mill team!

I was a technician in a college in the early 80's. I used to check the PETS after each word processing class. I once went up to a classroom and one of the screens had a 3 neat boxes of tippex corrector painted on it. Old habits die hard!

My first computer was Tandy TRS-80 Model I, like the one shown in the video here. I learned to do a lot of things with it such as writing programs in BASIC and Z80 assembly language; this is how I learned how computers really worked. This was in a time when the technology was not dumbed down and users were actively encouraged to more the computer.

Thanks for the ride in the WAY Back Machine.

Interesting stuff, I used to watch that program on TV. Came here today as learned the 6502 creator has passed away.

Oh I need to share this with you, The PET was the first computer I ever used also and the instructor told us (group of two) to type in a three line program which he dictated to us then he said, "Type in RUN", the guy beside me type in "Are You In", I swear my life on this. I wasn't sure my self, but I had a feeling that wasn't what he meant. : -)

The PET was the first computer I ever used and trust me, it was the height of technology and we programmed in BASIC.

I remember skipping a day at school, I went the next day to discover to my horror! my school had thrown a load of these in the skip the day before and I could of taken the lot!

The young presenter will be 70 on 3/19/2019. I've always believed biorhythms were a pile of you-know-what, but they were popular in the late 1970's as this was one of a handful of things these computers ran.

Our house in the 1970s was worth £6000, so if I sold it I could have been the lucky owner of 12 computers. Woo!

At end of the video she predicted future of what those will do, and spot on, we will be able shop online and compare cheapest prices.

I wish I was alive at this time. 😭😭😭

problem with the micro computers back then... you could do most everything they did by hand. My first computer was a Vic 20 in 1982. It was mostly a toy. The Commodore 64 was a very useful computer. You could run a small business using one. I remember Compuserve on a 300 baud modem.

I like old computers 🖥

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Something tells me her outfit was designed on one of these.

The PET opens up like a Car hood and with a hood prop rod

PET - Personal Electronic Transactor

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5:57 Thus the idea for the Internet was created.

These computers had what, 1 MHZ cpu power and 4 kb memory? And we essentially still do the same things with them

I just wonder how stunning this lady would be if she was dressed in 2016 fashion and had a 2016 hairstyle!

Compared to a 1977 Imsai PCS 80 or an Apple II, the PET and TRS-80 were affordable...

"... a little keyboard here to type out your messages..." _That's the computer!_ Where do you think the computer is? In the tape recorder?

£499 in 1977 is equivalent to £2,890.96 today. A device several orders more powerful is carried in everyone's pocket now. (and costs considrably less than £2,890.96 (until Apple sees this)).

It's like UK version of Call For Help 1977 style!

What would Julie Christe say ?? XD Thanks for the upload.. XD

"It can remember more than the other one" - look out PC World! She's like Steve f*ckin' Jobs or something!

Lol. It's like that even nowadays in my Visual Basic class...

I only earned £39 p/w gross in my 1st job in 1977, & no way could I buy one of those machines.

Amazing what housewives can do without leaving their kitchen, now in the space age.

meanwhile in the audience: Audience: "she's not making a good impression, why should i buy this computer? I already have an Apple II, why upgrade?"

Biorhythm .... boy there was a useful app.

Nice tank top

Yes, though not yet digitised.

And these kind of computers took us to the moon. Now we how hundreds of these computers (memory of course) in our pocket on our smartphones. Damn we have become lazy AF!

10 PRINT "Bollocks" 20 GOTO 10

2:32 30 percent of them are used in industry to look after and operate machines, the other 30 percent are used in schools and colleges. Wonder what happened to the remaining 40 percent?

Tandy... They look like a normal size TV and normal size Keyboard and normal size Tape Recorder to me. I don't remember any larger ones at the time?

@mach99999 But wasn't the internet still classifid then?

look at the size of that huge screen it blowing my mind so much dam screen! Mind blow hd colors with true 4k viewing!

Go Sears nice memory's. Stop recent near store. And with also a opportunity to play like video and game. Nu e and Kodak and Tyco and g.i. Joe's etc.

People today still can't tell the difference between a Monitor, Hard Drive and CPU.

5:53 hahahaha I wish, but they are still running free

You've cropped the picture which is a real shame

She really had to type in triple 6 as a math answer

This recording seems to be from Apr 3rd 1978, not 1977. (1:36)

Why haven't they got a Bournemouth or pPetticoat 5?

the other 30%?

4:16 yeah, after you buy the Commodore PET you will have money problems.

In 1977 £400 is about the equivalent of £1500 now.

I bet at the time a lot of people were thinking ,what's the point ?

1978

Wtf 666 illuminati confirmed

Lol 666 at 3:08... I wonder if that got any flak being this is in the 70's

tape?

Despites being 23 years away from the 21st century at that time, She already said’are you feeling you cannot keep up with the 21th century’ hahaha, Also despite pc’s were in it’s early stage and didn’t get mainstream, she said’ are you feeling your life is heavily controlled by computers’ ,hahahaha. Also despite internet didn’t existed backthen and a network didn’t get mainstream ,she already said that ‘soon you can connect your computer to a banksystem’ I also like how she said’1978 is gonna be the big thing with these compiters’ hahaha because the real computer revolution did begin at 1995. Whooaah i am sooo astonnished about this because it was not untill 1995 pc’s and inter(national)net(work) did get mainstream,And in 2005 banking busineses on pc’s did get finaly mainstream. Thing is backthen, it was all exclusive, only schools,hospitals,company’s,banks, ,students,business man’s did had a pc ,and a network was rarely used by them.I think that atleast only 0,5% of the consummers did had a pc in 1978 .

a basic brand new car like a ford fiesta was £1800 - just a little more than 2 commodore pets..

I wish she would have shown games

I can't see it catching on...

Ah - the very popular but utterly discredited biorhythm demonstration.

"it's more sophisticated" and yet, no graphics

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Biorhythm programs also disappeared with these computers after the 80s.

The PET 2001 keyboard... directly from the ones used in cash registers, incredibly awful.

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The internet is much older than those computers, and PRESTEL, Minitel, BTX and other videotex systems already existed or started at that time.

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Hahaha ‘are you feeling you cannot keep up with the 21th century,are feeling that your life is controlled by big computers’ absolutely brilliant how she said that,,, but lady, you got to realize these pc’s you showed were just in it’s early stage and didn’t go mainstream for 18 years to come,it only targetted schools,company’s,students ,business man’s and hospitals,it attrackted only 1% of consummers. I also like how she said’and are computers suspicious to you as to be big computers? Well 1978 may will change that because these are smaller computers getting on the market’ Am suprised that she said all these things because at that time in 1977 the year 2000 was still an whopping 23 years away. Also despite those pc’s were primitive it indeed demanded many company’s and despites a network (the procursor of internet)was only used by the state but even she said that people could soon connect their pc to a phone link system to connect to a bank system to do your bank busineses. Yeah i know we take these systems for grantage now but backthen they were just so futuristic.

"It can remember quite more than the trs-80" Bitchslap incoming for trs80 fans

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Where was Apple?

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1:21 no it can't, they both have 4k RAM. unless someone slipped her 16k on the sly then she just told a bold faced lie.

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She's so English.

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Too bad the top and bottom of this video are missing.

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I can just imagine the kid taking home the PET...then screaming and throwing a tantrum because the $699 (our damned american keyboards don't have the British pound symbol) computer has one of the worst keyboards in history.

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"More Sophisticated?" is she serious? The PET has 4k RAM, no graphics and a crappy keyboard. give me the trs80

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She clearly has not got a clue what she is talking about.I mean this in a nice way not a bad way after all it was 1977

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now women put on thongs and take selfies !