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Title: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: SyX on 02:45, 03 December 23
Hi!!! :)

I was watching now the last episode of Doctor Who, "Wild blue yonder", the second special of this year.

And at the start of the episode, the Doctor and Donna crash the Tardis in a tree and the Doctor shows the computer that he is using to control his time machine.

Of course, only the best computer ever, hehehe.

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Title: Re: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: poulette73 on 03:34, 03 December 23
Excellent !!  :D

Lovely find, you have the eye!
Title: Re: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: Gryzor on 10:38, 03 December 23
But the ZX cAn CoNtRoL a NuClEaR pLaNt!
Title: Re: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: eto on 12:32, 03 December 23
Is it connected via ... a shower hose?


so something like this for modern PCs?

(https://traumshop.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Gardena-auf-USB-1024x897-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: Gryzor on 12:34, 03 December 23
Quote from: eto on 12:32, 03 December 23Is it connected via ... a shower hose?


so something like this for modern PCs?


Only for torrenting.
Title: Re: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: Sykobee (Briggsy) on 11:12, 04 December 23
I'm unsure of the availability of Shower Hose to DIN adapters. I couldn't find them on Farnell.

I wonder if he is playing The Mines of Terror.
Title: Re: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: zhulien on 13:07, 04 December 23
what's cool is that a decade ago i would have laughted it is not plugged in or whatever... but we all know that it may now be battery powered with M4 card internally and even it's own display where the tape drive used to be... unless that was shown not to be there... but i guess he could have a neurallink that he makes webservice calls to from his CPC
Title: Re: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: Anthony Flack on 20:26, 10 December 23
I assume this wasn't just a matter of grabbing a cheap prop, but somebody on the show wanted to pay tribute to British computer history. I wonder if the Doctor has a copy of Roland in Time.

Unlike the TARDiS, the CPC464 is bigger on the outside. 
Title: Re: Doctor Who loves the CPC...
Post by: Strident on 15:00, 11 December 23
Quote from: Anthony Flack on 20:26, 10 December 23I assume this wasn't just a matter of grabbing a cheap prop, but somebody on the show wanted to pay tribute to British computer.
It's certainly not the first time such a prop has been used; even aside from the times when the BBC Micro was powering the TARDIS. In Peter Capaldi's era a modified Sinclair Scientific Calculator was used as the 2Dis. There was a C64 and a Spectrum+ in an episode the last full Jodie Whittaker series too.
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