Sue Ashcroft on BBC Pebble Mill at One in 1982 Reviewing the ZX Spectrum
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2022
- A 1982 edition of BBC Pebble Mill at One where Sue Ashcroft reviews the ZX Spectrum alongside other new home computers. She appears from 11.30 minutes.
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I would have been twelve and in my second year at senior school back then. My brother Anthony had a ZX Spectrum which he played games on. The BBC Micro Computer I encountered two years previously at junior school, when it was in the corner of my classroom!
I always liked the great view from the windows you get on Pebble Mill at One. Great upload.
Tx: 14 December 1982 (the date is given on the PRESTEL computer!)
The Prestel section is brilliant "Could you have schools selling software to other schools?" Actually you'll end up with companies selling adult content to people in bedrooms.
I see lots and lots of REM statements in those programs! I suppose they had to space out the code to make sure the older ones watching this weren't confused.
A line with a REM statement consumes 6 bytes and the program itself probably only consumed a couple of KB anyway.
I'd swear the audience were intimidated by the Kraftwerk robots early on!
That was uncomfortable to watch!
So was I
The BBC was basically broadcasting cyborg molestation.
14:25 That program which is BASIC ARITHMETIC is just so confusing! Why use "Sum", "Difference", "Product" and "Quotient" when you can simply say "Add", "Subtract", "Multiply" and "Divide"???
In the early days of consumer computer products it was common for owners to try to confuse those new to the technology, just to look intelligent. Once bigger companies realised the potential of big markets with everyday people using the hardware/software then such condescending language disappeared. This would be in the 1990s.
Hmmm well the Commodore 64 didn't arrive in the UK in PAL format until the last week of November 1982....perhaps they PEEKed too soon? lol
These are local computers for local people.
@@MrLtia1234 Well I am only patriotic when the goods are worth talking about, BBC overpriced rubbish, Sinclair rubbish, Dragon rubbish.
@@retrotronics1845 I'm guessing you're a bit old for playground stuff? 🙂
@@MrLtia1234 I'm guessing you are not an electronics engineer who knows the technical abilities of every home computer ever sold in PAL territories and owns the real hardware either? *no emoticon because I am not a child*
@@retrotronics1845 Wow where did that come from?
As it happens, No, I'm a software engineering lecturer who knows the technical abilities of every home computer ever sold in PAL territories and I own the real hardware. Because lots of people do, not just you! But that's no reason for you to get shirty, mate. Playground squabbles are best left there. As a kid, I had a C64 and Speccy, but I'm a grown up so I've subsequently got a Beeb, a CPC etc. etc. and now have 50+ home computers, including some I'm guessing you don't have.
The C64 is of course a glorious beast. A luxury gaming computer, but it has its strengths and weaknesses. The CPU having to share the RAM with the VIC-II limited it in some areas. All the hardware at that point was a compromise in some way. Being a zealot won't make you happy!