[HN Gopher] The Silicon Factor (1980) [video]
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The Silicon Factor (1980) [video]
Author : klelatti
Score : 14 points
Date : 2020-07-26 11:20 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (clp.bbcrewind.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (clp.bbcrewind.co.uk)
| leoc wrote:
| The link to the website was posted recently
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683158 . Reposting my
| earlier comment on it
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22695866 :
|
| > This wave of computer-literacy programming was actually started
| by a series from the BBC's commercially-funded rival ITV,
| Christoper Evans' _The Mighty Micro_. http://www.retro-
| now.com/the-mighty-micro-itvs-forgotten-com... (Wayback:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20191224064630/http://www.retro-...)
| https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqrLFTwrYemNYgb-hPXd3...
| (Evans also appears as a guest in the CLP's _The Silicon Factor_.
| https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/b5047fb21312089c95fdf482cda3c697)
|
| > I wonder if anyone has chased down people who remember Dick
| Brodner's circa-1980 home-automation setup in his Chicago house
| https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/e0417b82d1c1a84345852bf21916073e , or
| found out what became of it or if anything remains of it?
| klelatti wrote:
| Thanks. Posted as although I was around at the time I wasn't
| really particularly aware that any chip manufacturing was going
| on in the UK - with the possible exception of Ferranti who did
| the Spectrum ULA.
|
| I think INMOS did quite a bit of manufacturing later but not
| aware of any left in the UK now.
| the-dude wrote:
| "The media could not be loaded, either because the server or
| network failed or because the format is not supported."
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