The Silicon Factor (1980) [video]

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21 points·klelatti··4 comments

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?

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.

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Make sure you're not blocking cookies - if you have cookies blocked, you'll get that error.

(Not that I agree that you should need to allow cookies to watch a video, but that seems to be the reality of the internet right now).

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