Interesting C4 Documentary on 1980s, birth of home computers

[DRD]

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/made-in-the-80s-decade-that-shaped-our-world

The whole series is interesting, but episode 3 covers the early days of micro computing in the UK - Sinclair, BBC Model B, ARM chip, the early games companies

 

[AlanJ]

cheers. will watch that series

 

[Tucks]

Yeah, already watched this. Very good and made me feel really old!

Didn't realise the history behind Acorn/ARM processor - amazing

 

[Sako-TRG]

My 1st home computer was a TI994a

 

[DRD]

Me too ^

 

[Stags6969]

Vic 20 for me. Younger generation

 

[Tucks]

2600, Atari 400, c64

 

[Martywolfman]

ZX81 was the first computer for me. you couldn't beat it. 1cm square pixels, black and white only, no sounds and a whopping 1KB of RAM (until I saved up for the 16KB RAM pack, to turn it into something to almost match a Cray)
I did have an Atari 2600 before it though, and a 3 game 'football' pong style game before that

 

[new forest pinball]

David my friend……
Are you avoiding the subject of pinball intentionally?….. please offer an explanation, I am concerned for your pinball mojo…
Yours sincerely Keef……

 

[steve brum]

Watch micro men on BBC iplayer
Superb