Amstrad focused on BBC Micro Live on BBC iPlayer

Started by seanb, 13:47, 16 September 15

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seanb

First broadcast in Oct 1986 you can now watch this if you have iPlayer.
It's talking mostly about the new Amstrad "IBM Clone" and also has Sir Clive Sinclair in there as well.


BBC Micro Live
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seanb

Quote from: TFM on 17:17, 16 September 15
only works in the uk.

I thought that might happen.

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chinnyhill10

Ah Micro Live. Always so Acorn biased it hurts. Always happy to show off the already ancient BBC Micro at the drop of a hat but then call newer machines old technology.


And the MD of Acorn is suffering from a bad case of sour grapes.
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seanb

The Acorn MD was a bit sour  ;D

And I'll remember hola.
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chinnyhill10

Quote from: seanb on 23:58, 16 September 15
The Acorn MD was a bit sour  ;D

And I'll remember hola.


Well I'd be sour if I was flogging 5 year old technology with no storage or monitor for the same price as a colour CPC 6128.  :D No wonder our school filled their computer room up with CPC's!
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arnoldemu

Quote from: chinnyhill10 on 23:22, 16 September 15
Ah Micro Live. Always so Acorn biased it hurts. Always happy to show off the already ancient BBC Micro at the drop of a hat but then call newer machines old technology.


And the MD of Acorn is suffering from a bad case of sour grapes.

Acorn, maker of the *BBC* Micro?

A *BBC* show?

Bias?  :laugh:

CraigsBar

Quote from: seanb on 23:58, 16 September 15
The Acorn MD was a bit sour  ;D

And I'll remember hola.
And a bit wrong too. The 'IBM compatible pc' has come a long way since then, but it is still with us.
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seanb

Quote from: CraigsBar on 08:51, 17 September 15
And a bit wrong too. The 'IBM compatible pc' has come a long way since then, but it is still with us.

You mean IBM "clones"
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pelrun

Quote from: chinnyhill10 on 01:00, 17 September 15
Well I'd be sour if I was flogging 5 year old technology with no storage or monitor for the same price as a colour CPC 6128.  :D


He might have been sour, but he had an ace up his sleeve - they were busy developing the ARM cpu in secret at that point. That certainly worked out for them better than anyone could possibly have expected.

chinnyhill10

Quote from: pelrun on 03:59, 18 September 15

He might have been sour, but he had an ace up his sleeve - they were busy developing the ARM cpu in secret at that point. That certainly worked out for them better than anyone could possibly have expected.


Not really. Acorn was still a lame duck company for the rest of its existence and ARM was in a subsidy company propping it up (much like the Amiga propped up Commodore). ARM really gained traction after Acorn were long gone.
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