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John Leslie in a promotional programme for Acorn Computers, circa 1993.
Badly edited to get down below 15 mins. so apologies in advance.

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[ForViewingOnly]

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 :-)

[jeremykyleftw]

@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.

[summer20105707]

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.

[jeremykyleftw]

@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.

[shaurz]

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.

[jeremykyleftw]

@shaurz i think this was the highlight of john leslie's colourful career!

[madcapoperator]

john leslie: so what's your favourite game of all time?

kid: MARIO WORLD!!!

john leslie:...

xD

[ForViewingOnly]

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 :-)

[ElectronicMusican]

I strongly disagree with the elimination of the Amiga not being a office machine...how bias can you get..

[asm1]

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.

[shaurz]

@jeremykyleftw Haha surely not, that was Wheel of Fortune!