BBC Releases Computer History Archive

An anonymous reader shares a report: A slice of computing history has been made public, giving people the opportunity to delve into an archive that inspired a generation of coders. The Computer Literacy Project led to the introduction of the BBC Micro alongside programs which introduced viewers to the principles of computing. It included interviews with innovators such as Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak. The BBC hopes the 1980s archive will encourage today's youngsters to become involved in computing. With the release of the archive, viewers can now search and browse all of the programmes from the project. The archive includes 267 programs, and 166 BBC Micro programs that were used on-screen.

Re: What about diversity?

[ozduo]

What the followers of the Christian god preach "obey your betters" which translates to "obey men"

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[K. S. Kyosuke]

The same things as anyone else willing to learn?

So many interesting episodes

[simpz]

Some highlights for me are

Micro Live S02E09 - History of computer memory. Including the protein from mud that may one day store 100GB.

The computer music one "If I had a hammer"

The live hack someone did on their email account.

MIPS processor is somewhere in here and the transputer

Lots of great stuff

[HatofPig]

Just watched the first episode of Electric Avenue and it was pretty great. Giant space voyage simulator with CG view screen, computer usage in the field by archeologists, and a blind woman who runs some sort of graphics design company (!) using microcomputer accessibility devices. Lots of neat footage. https://computer-literacy-proj... [bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk]

great for us old-timers

[sad_]

we might still have an old home computer hidden somewhere that we still use for fun every now and then, but young people? not so very much. you only need to look at some youtube video's of kids being introduced and trying out a C64, most of them think it is horrible.

Fairchild

[AHuxley]

Some good animation on the later Fairchild and the former employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
https://computer-literacy-proj... [bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk]

Best 8-bit micro ever

[rklrkl]

The BBC Micro was one of the most expensive 8-bit micros sold in the 80's in the UK (perhaps the TRS-80 and Apple II were the only pricier options, although they're American of course), but it was still the best 8-bit micro ever (IMHO) from a hardware and built-in OS/BASIC point of view. The price meant it never sold in huge numbers (the ZX Spectrum massively outsold it despite being enormously inferior in every single department - it "won" because the cheap price meant more games were developed for it even