Stumper: What computers are these?

[Adrian Graham]

On 2/7/06 21:34, "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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...

When the archives come back up you can search for the discussion we had
about them back then. Didn't we decide bournemouth was *probably* based on a
TRS80 with at least 2 different keyboard components and the petticoat was
totally fabricated from scratch? I remember having a rootle around for
pictures of the floppy drives in bournemouth afterwards because I don't
remember ever seeing any with a nice icon of the floppy disk on it, or the
'0' and '1' designations.
 
> (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 :-)

I think the reason the second series wasn't so funny is because it was much
better produced and realised, like they'd put more effort into accurately
spoofing 'Tomorrow's World' rather than just going for laughs like the
'perfect eggy' in the first series. You've reminded me I've got a DVD of the
first series for Sellam here somewhere.....

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Adrian/Witchy
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