Stumper: What computers are these?

[Jules Richardson]

Seth Morabito wrote:
> BBC has a series, "Look Around You", a comedy program based on late 
> 1970s and early 1980s educational programming.  Season two included an 
> episode called "Computers", and featured these two fake "home computers".
> 
> I assume that these are genuine British classic computers that the 
> producers painted and re-badged for television. 

Totally made up for the show, AFAIK. There are a few genuine 80's micros to be 
spotted in there, though! I keep meaning to try and find out what happened to 
the Bournemouth prop - it'd be an amusing thing for the museum to have on 
display...

The cursor area on Bournemouth's keyboard closely resembles the RML 480Z - and 
I'm sure some genuine machine has used a row of 4 smaller keys like in that 
photo too (although it's possible I'm thinking of the CBM +4's function keys, 
in which case they're actually a different size)

(incidentally I found the first series a lot more funny - somehow it seemed 
closer to how I remember those 80's schools shows, whilst being completely 
insane :-)

cheers

Jules