This playlist is dedicated to hosting episodes from Micro Live which was part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project.
Following the two successful Making the Most of the Micro - Live! 'specials' in 1983, BBC2 transmitted Micro Live, a regular magazine series to keep people up to date with technological developments. Fronted by Ian McNaught Davis, Lesley Judd and Fred Harris, MicroLive ran for three years.
Instead of a structured approach, MicroLive was reactive, with up to the minute news and many explanations of how things work,. Occasional but regular reports came from an american reporter, Connor Cochrane, known as Freff.
A typical example is the first broadcast attempt to make a transatlantic mobile to mobile telephone call from a moving vehicle (Lesley Judd in a Sinclair C5 called Freff in New York). The item included an explanation by Ian McNaught Davis of how the cellular phone system works and the software for this can be run as part of this archive. The last programme in 1987 included an interview with Derek Jacobi, playing Alan Turing in the play Breaking the Code.
This playlist contains episodes from Season 2 (1986-87)
You can find the rest of the Season 2 episodes here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN26hvoU-ZI&list=PLOSW4Q7-Hya4zjMs1drcvtG-5k3929gl-
You can find all the other BBC Computer Literacy Project series on my channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/@PhilSpilsbury
No copyright infringement is intended. Special thanks to the BBC for their impact on explaining the early world of personal computers back in the early 1980s.
As for me I've been involved in Computing since 1981 and have been a professional Computer Programmer since 1986.
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