Retro Computers | Sending Data Electronically | Four Computer Buffs | 1985
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- Dr. Mike Thorne from Thames TV's 'Four Computer Buffs' show the viewers how to build a simple electronic receiver that can be used to transfer electronic data to your home computer via your television.
First shown: 11/02/1985
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Can you imagine something as technical as this being broadcast on terrestrial TV today?
Tmuk2 - Hard evidence of the dumbing down of society. Hundreds of cable or sky channels pumping out mind numbing crap.
"...send a 1 to the computer if the flashing square is white and a 0 if the flashing square is black"
50,000 racist complaints sent to Ofcom, the show is cancelled and the world continues to become dumberer.
@@seenfranklin5609 Yep and the gender militia complaining and sending death threats etc. Nice people.
That's what we have RUclips for.
Yes the program's they show on tv these days have made us all a lot more thick.i remember when tv use to educate us.
This guy was way ahead of his time. Even got the hipster beard
Known back then as the "Open University Look"
We're going the way of Idiocracy.
Now this is what I call PC building.
I still shudder when I see BBC Micros. I swear I am still traumatised from all the hours of Teletext Emulation I was forced to do at high school.
I don't. They look cool. Even Doctor Who had one.
I remember once, we were playing some kind of Galaxian game on the BBC. The kid next to me typed in a few commands and hey presto: two players on screen at once. He was like the coolest kid in the entire school for doing that lol..
maplins or radio shack... i remember those...
Maplin saved my bacon a few times. Even though I didn't consider their products the cheapest, they still had things that were very hard to find elsewhere on my local high-street..things like thermal paste, computer fans etc.
Awesome programme.
I had a BBC electron
Repeat after me........your dad was not being tight, your dad was not being tight......your
Acorn Electron or BBC Micro?
Remember my brother built it.... it didn't work :/
But how did you actually watch the porn once you had set it all up and received it?
As a spotty youth, firstly you had to try and adopt a nonchalant, adult attitude, then pluck up the courage to go to the top shelf, grab said magazine and try not draw too much attention to oneself whilst oggling the bristols!
Beards and tank tops.
Usborne did a good book on this kind of thing in the 80's. Its available as a pdf download somewhere. There was another smaller pocket book too.my problem when all this was out was that I was interested but far too young - like 8.
Why the Spectrum version needs 4 ICs, 1 regulator and a 24 ways ribbon cable as it's just a light to TTL signal thingy ?
Why have I just watched that?
Retro recipes just read this program
stick that sucker on :)
It's such a shame that this kind of educational broadcast doesn't happen today.
I was of the 'Spectrum/C64' era but was unaware of this televised program, and I'm poorer for it.
But nowhere near the IQ poverty of today (who would s**t themselves if they had to wire a plug).
BTW, for any millenials, aka Gen Y, a 'plug' is that thing that hurts if you tread on it when it's left lying around and not connected (plugged) into that thing on the wall with a switch. The 'wire' is the floppy bit that joins the thing that hurts if you tread on it to the item you want to utilise (in your case, a charger for a 'cordless' item).
Oh the irony
Who uses a computer these days 😂. My camera makes photo calls
Me
How old are you? Literally millions of people use a computer on almost a daily basis.
Back when computer's were boring as shit!
You're comparing to what you know now. This was all NEW to a mind back then and extremely exciting.
Were you alive back then?
Exactly!