BBC Micro Live

[trunksss5]

" If you write to this address at the end of the program"

Holy crap no internet,

[wisteela]

I love stuff like this. Thanks for uploading.

I'll have to find some info on that VIP Micro.

[2ndviolin]

I still have my original BBC micro, though I'm afraid the power supply would blow up if I tried to start it up. :/

[wisteela]

@2ndviolin That happened with mine. The filter cap went. Luckily I'd got a spare PSU. I'll also be fixing the original PSU.

[jcpadmore]

Blimey - all I did was say how I would've reacted to seeing this feature when I was 11 years old and I get this barrage of trolling.

[jcpadmore]

@AllenRobinson2010 - And that's got anything to do with games because??..................

[jcpadmore]

@AllenRobinson2010 - ??????????????

[jcpadmore]

@AllenRobinson2010 - I read a lot, but your examples are music and a film - so not reading at all. Idiot. Also, I'm 39 this year so I know who The Police are, thank you.

[jcpadmore]

Haha! That demonstration of the subtitling was as clear as mud, using words like "synchronous", etc. Typical nerd talking in nerd language. I bet the general population watching this back in 1983 were just going "What????? What's he on about?!?!!??!?". I was 11 years old and I would've no doubt have said "This is gay! Where are the games?!?!" :-D

[richardmaudsley77]

Genlocks before genlock was a word...

Funny how they didn't even plug that video recorder in before the demo.

[walter0bz]

did they do an episode on LP-ROM drives

[chucklevisionman]

HA it's so wired u needed a big box just to bring up a title and u van do that in a click of a button on the computer now!

[sphoney]

Not even that machine can explode a 3d object in real time... that would be madness. That's cloud cuckoo land!

I used these in school well into the 90s too. The dot matrix printer: a page a minute, no sweats.

[JonnyInfinite]

D'you know I actually worked with these archaic machines at school until the 3rd yeah of high school? And that was 1995!!!

[TheSunzuki1]

@JonnyInfinite Same here, except we just had them in primary school until 1997.

[turbojet100]

i love BBC's and masters i have two master 128's myself

[JonnyInfinite]

400k of memory. Wow

[olires]

That's a huge amount for the day. The most common BBC Micro had 32k and the Spectrum had 48k.

[NameNotaNumber]

Does anyone remember sometime in the mid 80's, a series of programs on BBC2 in which they gave an advanced computer graphics machine to an artist to play around with? I have such fond memories of this program and yet I can't find reference to it anywhere. They were at a huge console deck with various buttons and they drew on a touch tablet. Very advanced stuff for the time. Would LOVE to see it again. Pls contact me if you know anything about it!

[denaliuk]

The programme you're looking for was called 'Painting with Light'. The hardware was the Quantel Paintbox. The episode with David Hockney is here on YouTube in five parts. Search for 'hockney painting with light' and you should find it.

[NameNotaNumber]

Great thanks!

[NameNotaNumber]

I'm so glad to have lived through the start of the home computer revolution and to have experienced the contrast between the analog age and the digital age. This was such an exciting time to be a 10 year old technohead!

[xmarflesx]

Looooooooooooll Look at hiis hair!

Ian is my grandadd:)

[numpty1972]

All Midcro live clips appreciated.

[hafstrat]

The coolest bit of kit middx poly had was a VCS3 which I played with several times in 1977,erm where was it?... ah.. Crouch End!!! Eddie Franklin White and some other guy showed us how to use it. Flippin awesome!!! :-)