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Cool. Episode of "Micro Live" with a brief demo of a Fairlight CMI Series III https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/b8a2ca1e800873

Cool. Episode of "Micro Live" with a brief demo of a Fairlight CMI Series III https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/b8a2ca1e800873c2cd8f38e5ed8bd5b4 https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.... Clip from Micro Live that visits Infocom during the development of text adventure "Spellbreaker". LISP mentioned in passing. https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/a2e1d6d7656c5505bd3dc74a8ef8d392 https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.... 2011 documentary on Steve Jobs: "Billion Dollar Hippy": https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/a54d226a1c0d98b7d93f4859efa34421 https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
Billion Dollar Hippy is a fantastic documentary btw, as is to be expected from BBC Four.
jdietrich 8y ago
My pick from the archive is "Now the Chips are Down", an eerily prescient 1978 documentary about what was then called the "silicon chip revolution". https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/d39fe5ab963b83309447394e46b6ad99 https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....
- leg100 8y ago
  I watched this on iPlayer a few months ago....if anything it seemed the revolution had already taken place, revealing just how big and sophisticated an industry it was by 1978, with the supply-chain already straddling the Pacific, chips designed and fabricated in the valley, and integrated and assembled in Asia.
- markb139 8y ago
  A 12 year old me watched this when it was broadcast. I knew after seeing the programme what I wanted do for a career. 40 years later I'm a software engineer - my teachers at school would be most suprised :)
digi_owl 8y ago
Heh, whenever Fairlight gets mentioned my brain trips up because the first place i encountered that name was as a maker of cyberdesks in Shadowrun (a pen and paper RPG).

SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago

Billion Dollar Hippy is a fantastic documentary btw, as is to be expected from BBC Four.

jdietrich 8y ago

My pick from the archive is "Now the Chips are Down", an eerily prescient 1978 documentary about what was then called the "silicon chip revolution". https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/d39fe5ab963b83309447394e46b6ad99 https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

leg100 8y ago
I watched this on iPlayer a few months ago....if anything it seemed the revolution had already taken place, revealing just how big and sophisticated an industry it was by 1978, with the supply-chain already straddling the Pacific, chips designed and fabricated in the valley, and integrated and assembled in Asia.
markb139 8y ago
A 12 year old me watched this when it was broadcast. I knew after seeing the programme what I wanted do for a career. 40 years later I'm a software engineer - my teachers at school would be most suprised :)

digi_owl 8y ago

Heh, whenever Fairlight gets mentioned my brain trips up because the first place i encountered that name was as a maker of cyberdesks in Shadowrun (a pen and paper RPG).