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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: Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 10:36:23 +0000 (UTC)
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Try a British firm called Fast Forward they have a lot of old BBC stuff. I got
Hitchhikes Guide to the Galaxy from them.
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:53:36 +0000, spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:
> 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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