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Really one of my favorite examples of why public sector investment is a Good Thing.
by nr2x 5y ago
Really one of my favorite examples of why public sector investment is a Good Thing.
- ngold 5y agoI still love that movie with the hobbit guy about the BBC acorn. That was great.
- aaronharder 5y agoMicro Men! Great little TV movie, and really interesting story of the rivalry between UK golden-age home computing giants Sinclair and Acorn (Acorn being the company behind the BBC micro, and also originally the "A" in "ARM").
- dopidopHN 5y agoOh thank you, I never heard those name before so I had a hard time following this part of the thread. ( do some more search, adding “micro” ) Ok, so it IS a British Broadcasting Corporation spawn. Ha. Excellent. I had no idea. Thanks for spelling it out, I was about to reject the idea as funny but unlikely.
- thedailymail 5y agoMe neither! Here's a link to the movie: https://archive.org/details/MicroMen720p2009 https://archive.org/details/MicroMen720p2009
- dopidopHN 5y agoWait wait wait… Gloating for no good reason about public investment is one of my favorite activities. I have a hard time following the connection with M1 processors?
- 00jimbo 5y agobbc contracted acorn to produce an educational computer to go hand-in-hand with a tv program. it was a smashing success and made them so much more money than anything else they'd been doing. they birthed arm.
- dopidopHN 5y agoAh thanks yeah I was researching that. I had absolutely no idea. And I’ve been using those nifty fuckers since a while now. Ha.
- rasz 5y agoIt made them the only money they ever made, but in the end they had to default on payback of 3mil pounds of royalties to BBC thanks to typical 80s mismanagement (oh hi Commodore).