The Computer Programme (1): It's Happening Now (Introduction to Computing)
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The first episode of the BBC's 1982 television series The Computer Programme, introducing home computing to a general audience. It surveys mainframes, early personal computers such as the BBC Micro and Commodore PET, and the changing computer market of the time.
Cited as nostalgic period documentation of the early UK microcomputer era, with commenters fondly remembering the series and the BBC Micro.
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That man, Rex Malik, participated in (among other things) the 1982 BBC series “The Computer Programme” ( link ), typically in a small section at the end on an episode but also as narrator in other parts and is credited as “Programme Adviser”: Episode 1 - “It’s Happening Now”: ▶ this video Episode 4 - “It’s on the Computer”: link Episode 5 - “The New Media“: link Episode 10 - “Things to Come”: link
Episodes: 1. It's Happening Now: ▶ this video 2. Getting Down to Basic: link 3. Micro Live [with visit to Alan Turing play]: link 4. Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar: link A very good look at changing markets. 5. -- Compilation 6. Blocked by YouTube.
I loved that programme and I loved my Model B. Serle & Mac were so easy to watch. It was on BBC2 (then so were a bunch of great early morning Open University programmes on subjects that were way over my young head). ▶ this video Wasn't there also a weekly Radio 4 computer programme where they'd transmit a program that you could record on tape and then load onto your computer?