a pioneer. dual disk drive in 1982. trailblazer

She appears in this little BBC clip as well, where she talks about building her own computer. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMilY86eqMuwg30.html

@@baardbi seriously? Wow I gotta see this, now. Thanks! Awesome.

Ummm. I couldn't get the interviewer of the old lady out of my mind. All I could think about about after watching this video was how I would love to shag that brunette. But the World know us bloats from the States have warped minds. Which is OK with me as long as I get to pound that get into the mattress.

She should have made a website and done click and collect, would have made a fortune! lol

Yeaahh,, I very happy to

Sadly her chocolate box shop is now a fast food takeaway - checkout 25 Bucklersbury Hitchin

@@speedbird737 Really!!... I assume she is long gone as well.... Wonder how her Computer consulting business fared??

Phillis is a boss

Its insane isnt it? And with the amount of documentation and tutorials we have, written and in other types of media, people still think learning to do new things is "hard".

This made me lol....... if only he knew............

That poor, poor man.

Hahahaha! But take it easy! He said "just used"... He meant there were more things around that it could be! But I see that it was unblieveble for them on that time imagining about gaming, whatching movies, talk in a network and whatever, for example, through a simple computer, or even a mobile phone or smartwatch.

how the best processors maker nowadays sale their product : we have THE BEST GAMING performance

That's funny, a lot of people using computers today use them for gaming, streaming, porn, uploading selfies and checking the weather. Oh yes and some intellectuals use computers to perform extremely complicated computations achieved by the use of sophisticated algorithms. :)

we now have Banana Pi!

This BBC programme looked stupid then and it looks even stupider now.

The BBC Micro wasn't built specifically for this programme. It was a project financed by the UK government via the BBC network, and sponsored by the BBC to incourage the use of computers in schools and for education in general. The ARM processor began life as the processor for the next planned BBC Micro model circa 1984-1985. The government funding of the project ended by late 1985 and Acorn scrapped the BBC Micro successor. The first computer with the ARM processor was the Acorn Archimedes in 1987, which was quite a capable machine and showed the true potential of RISC microprocessors. Because BBC sponsored the Acorn Micro, it was heavily promoted in this television programme. The semiconductor division split up from Acorn circa 1990 and inherited the name of the microprocessor architecture, ARM, while Acorn itself folded.

Those early 80s in Europe and the US were a magical grandiose time. I miss them too, I guess that's why started doing a lot of retro computing and "low level" coding videos. Just for the nostalgia, being back, in mind and memory, in those days where the world made sense and new things were happening and ready to explore and make you marvel.

I was born 1983

I think it still is :)

unixnerd23 8 bit processors were fun

@@charlesbaldo I knew my VIC-20 inside and out, every peek and poke location address

@@timroach5898 I know most of the ZX Spectrum pokes. And I was scared of girls.

Haha, so true

Wasn't that what Clive Sinclair intended it for? Playing games? I'm pretty sure Sir Clive never intended it to be a Low cost machine for mostly business use. ;-)

Same here

Manic Miner was the birth of platform gaming.. the birth of a genre! I believe it was the first to have in-game sound (Mountain King)... awesome! :-)

Yea.. and tape to tape copying and swapping at school, taking several attempts to get the volume mm perfect for it to load and having c90 cassettes crammed with 10+ games with the counter numbers indexed on the inlays. ;)

@@fiskrond9212 Donkey Kong was out a few years earlier but that was a game on a small console.

I own 2x C64s.

Remember, we were born in the 1900's lol have a good day :-)

We're getting old dude

@@nzrdb6 hehe we are indeed :)

Us working-class kids had vic20s

Yes, a Vic 20. The 64 came out 7 months after this program was made.

At least they have been trying for decades.

3 years after this programme aired, I joined British Airways as a computer programmer, working on their Reservations & Fares systems. Those were the days :-)

I knew that I knew him from somewhere - looked him up. Most Americans like myself know him from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Willy Wonka comes to mind, and other movies and tv filmed in Britain.

@@DisgruntledPigumon He also had a funny role in the Beatles movie Help.

He did a great turn in Blake's Seven, in an episode called "Gold". He was a legend. They don't make 'em like that anymore...

deputyVH Yes. The BBC had a special licence deal which meant they could use copyrighted music pretty liberally. Not sure if that’s still the case now though.

Just imagine going back to the mid 1970s with a few reels of Pi Picos and full technical reference documentation for them. You'd have to wait about a year for them to get over the massive shock of having as much as 4MiB¹ of disk space to work in, but once they get over that it would be amazing to see what they could achieve with the efficiency- and limitation-driven methods of the time! 🧮💾😀 One of several projects I have in mind - Which will lean a lot on 80s computing techniques - Is to develop a functional word processor running on a Pico, which will be an achievement if I ever manage to do it. But the engineers of that time would probably be able to take that exact same thing and use it to functionally replace British Rails System/360 mainframe that was running a lot of the railway data network of the time! 🚄📲😀 (¹ - The 2023 equivalent might be a £10,- smartphone with 8TB of built-in storage.)

I was a schoolboy back then and chocolate bars were much bigger.

paul house 20:01 😂😂

A 100? The Cray-2 had only had 1.9 GFLOPS (1989). A Samsung S5 (2014) produced 142 GFLOPS - 70 times more...and that's just a phone. A PS5 produces 9200 GFLOPS... about 4000x more power.

Oh yeah, I remember that, we also programmed in Qbasic in school. It was great fun. That got me into writing text adventures.

I remember doing that, I used to spend hours, usually with a syntax error on line 250. I remember tearing a magazine to shreds in a 8 year old rage because I typed it in wrong! 😂

I think it was Xerox that came up with a GUI, mouse control etc. No one at Zerox could see the need though. Howver I think Steve Jobs took an interest in their inventions and took it from there.

It's one Computer. That's how big a Cray is.

A PAEDO

Rex Malik came the associate producer on later programs

@@aalexjohna I definitely wouldn't have him as a babysitter LOL

@@Scripture-Man On your bike, you God bothering piece of shit

Are you in the U.K? He was well known over here. A familiar face on our T.V.s.

Not over the internet. But you could go to a Travel Agent who could use a dedicated terminal to buy you a ticket

@@keithowen3599 and no danger of overbooking of seats because of the database rules😉

Now about those cancellation and rebooking policies that we have today vs 1982… 🤔

@@keithowen3599 It wasn't the Internet _per-se_ , but PRESTEL was one of several forerunner to the modern Internet and experience gained with it established some of the present Internets working principles and standards, including the adoption of HTML for laying out pages based on the fact VideoTex block graphics (i.e. Teletext style) were proving suboptimal for some applications even in the early 80s. Prestel and its services were available to anybody with a modem who subscribed to the service...But before you ask why take-up was rather low, take a look at the cost of a Prestel setup and subscription - Todays equivalent would be like paying £60,-/month for your *SIM-only* mobile phone contract! 😲 (Compare with France, where MiniTel access and terminals were made free to all.)

Aye, that it was...Just don't ask about the cost of subscribing to PRESTEL, which is why take-up was mainly confined to larger organisations and businesses! It was a great tool, but it also came with a great🇬🇧 price tag! Unsurprisingly, Prestel died out in the early 90s. 💸 In direct contrast: After doing some math, France Telecom worked out that providing free terminals and access to their equivalent - _MiniTel_ - Worked out considerably cheaper than the cost of producing and delivering telephone directories over a ten year period, so they opted for making MiniTel free-to-all. 🖥🇫🇷👍 Not only did this make France the first country to enjoy the benefits of a publicly connected nation - Despite MiniTel being described by some as technologically inferior to Prestel - But it also gave the network a much longer lifespan: MiniTel lasted for about 32 years - Being finally turned off in 2012 - And probably delivered at least 8x the expected return on investment to the French taxpayer. 🇫🇷💰🙂

Back when he phrase wasn't paradoxical.

You know its movie-magic called: getting to see the script before shooting.

ironically he's not using a word processor to bash out his modern classic. for a man so studied in the computer world, does seem a little strange.

There were plenty of folks who refused back then... many people are fearful of change and being made obsolete, when in truth it's a case of "I can't be arsed" as it is also today. People are inherently lazy and th need a kick up the backside

and to think the average smartwatch has many times the power of the cray of that time.

It can do 50 million operations per second. That phone in your pocket is able to do 30 times that.

@@JesusisJesus that is why I said your average smartwatch. The modern phones are more powerfull than 90's cray computers.

i dont see ronnie or regie there or even babs windsor.

@@swifty1969 but does your average smart watch also double as a bench seat? 😂

ah they are all online these days. they are dubbed "the silver surfers"

I don't think I knew any in the 90s or the 00s.

ba dum tish!

Yeah, that was a while back. Nice to see him on this, of course.

proper class act that man!

Gallagher brothers...

It is 2019. This was 37 years ago.

And I bet they were bigger.

And tin foil 😉

you eagle eyed bugger. are you scottish? :O hehe

Neb6 yeah there’s no understating how powerful those supercomputers were, and you can’t apply the old ‘my watch is more powerful than’ just because it was old. It had a big mass of processors.

iphone 5 has a mips rating of 18,200 mips

i have some 1/4 inch tapes from the 1970s. no idea why. just in the attic. i think they have cobol & fortran programs on them

...and...

And - of course - funny cat videos.

this is actually false, it might look like that to you (a gamer) but the wast majority of computers are not used for gaming at all, also the wast majority of computer users do not use them to play games.

Are PC games the main driving force behind processor speeds? I did not know that. I just thought everyone wanted faster computers, no matter what you use it for.

Huh? That's not the case at all. Just like the show said, it costs a lot to build the first (R&D) then gets cheaper the more they make, it was mostly research and enterprise that was able to fund the progress of computers, those innovations then trickle down to the consumer at a more affordable price. This is still the way it works today with new technological innovations.

Phyllis' computer would be a similar price from what I can dig up. I see what she means about it not helping financially.

makara80 copyright so I changed it

I was wondering if anybody would figure out the location, well done! I must say "The Chocolate Box" looks like it was a very old shop even for 1981.