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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....

Clip from Micro Live that visits Infocom during the development of text adventure "Spellbreaker". LISP mentioned in passing.

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

2011 documentary on Steve Jobs: "Billion Dollar Hippy":

https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio....

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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....

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.

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 :)

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).

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

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