Thanks for uploading this bit of UK computing history... I hadn't seen this before. It's shockingly biased, as many have already said. As much as I love Acorn, they made a truly awful promo video here :-)
@ForViewingOnly you're welcome, I did try to upload another video but it was a bit too long for the 15 min time frame, I'll see if I can edit it and upload it sometime.
Thanks for uploading this bit of UK computing history... I hadn't seen this before. It's shockingly biased, as many have already said. As much as I love Acorn, they made a truly awful promo video here :-)
The Amiga had word processing and desktop publishing. Word perfect and final copy. And I've never even seen an Acorn in the North American market. Heavily biased show. Im sure the Acorn's were good computers but they were only common in the UK like the spectrum.
@summer20105707 I agree this is very biased. I only one knew person who had an acorn computer at home back in the day and he was actually a school teacher, these computers were massive in UK schools though. The Acorn legacy does still live on though through our mobile devices using RISC processors.
Horribly biased, but then it is a "promotional programme for Acorn Computers" so I'd hardly expect them to make one of the other macines look good lol.
LOL what an awful programme. They forgot to mention that the Acorn had a handful of games and all the best ones were on the NES and Amiga... They didn't even mention multimedia which the Amiga excels at.
john leslie: so what's your favourite game of all time?
kid: MARIO WORLD!!!
john leslie:...
xD
madcapoperator 1 month ago
Thanks for uploading this bit of UK computing history... I hadn't seen this before. It's shockingly biased, as many have already said. As much as I love Acorn, they made a truly awful promo video here :-)
ForViewingOnly 5 months ago
@ForViewingOnly you're welcome, I did try to upload another video but it was a bit too long for the 15 min time frame, I'll see if I can edit it and upload it sometime.
jeremykyleftw 5 months ago
Thanks for uploading this bit of UK computing history... I hadn't seen this before. It's shockingly biased, as many have already said. As much as I love Acorn, they made a truly awful promo video here :-)
ForViewingOnly 5 months ago
I strongly disagree with the elimination of the Amiga not being a office machine...how bias can you get..
ElectronicMusican 6 months ago
The Amiga had word processing and desktop publishing. Word perfect and final copy. And I've never even seen an Acorn in the North American market. Heavily biased show. Im sure the Acorn's were good computers but they were only common in the UK like the spectrum.
summer20105707 7 months ago
@summer20105707 I agree this is very biased. I only one knew person who had an acorn computer at home back in the day and he was actually a school teacher, these computers were massive in UK schools though. The Acorn legacy does still live on though through our mobile devices using RISC processors.
jeremykyleftw 7 months ago
Horribly biased, but then it is a "promotional programme for Acorn Computers" so I'd hardly expect them to make one of the other macines look good lol.
asm1 9 months ago
LOL what an awful programme. They forgot to mention that the Acorn had a handful of games and all the best ones were on the NES and Amiga... They didn't even mention multimedia which the Amiga excels at.
shaurz 9 months ago
@shaurz i think this was the highlight of john leslie's colourful career!
jeremykyleftw 9 months ago
@jeremykyleftw Haha surely not, that was Wheel of Fortune!
shaurz 9 months ago
I half expected the Jackson 5 appearing on this teleporter pad :-)
doalwa 9 months ago
TAME SPROGS! Almost as memorable as SPLINK!
khisanth75 10 months ago
"Powerful"
lol.
chica476 11 months ago