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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: spike1@freenet.co.uk
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:53:36 +0000
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Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com> did eloquently scribble:
> Can you fellows on the east side of the Atlantic help me with an early 80s
> question?
> When I was in grad school in Mississippi, I saw on the Public TV channel
> (several times) two BBC series on micro computers.
> One was called (I think) The Computer Program, and the other was (as I recall)
> Making the Most of the Micro.
> Each was 12-13 episodes long.
> I've tried here, through contacts with the Nebraska Public TV to see if anyone
> has copies, or where I could buy copies. Do any of you know anything about
> getting old BBC programs on tape?
> Both series had the same host (a Scottish surname as I recall)
Ian McNaught Davies... With Chris Serl as his clueless "what's a computer"
type sidekick on the computer programme...
Alas. No. Can't gove you any pointers on getting copies. I don't know if the
BBC even still have copies of it.
You could always enquire to the BBC itself.
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