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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:59:16 +0000
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Andrew Curry <andrew@RICHFORD.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: THE NET (UK TV programme)
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
With the permission of the executive producer I am forwarding to Cyhist a note about an edition of the UK TV programme The Net, on early computing. It had a UK perspective, and the transcripts (see Web address below) may be of interest to Community Memory participants.
Andrew Curry
Programme Five: Memory
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Tonight, Monday February 17, at 11.15pm on BBC2, THE NET addresses memory and the digital world. The centrepiece of the programme is a specially extended piece about the early history of computing in Britain.
You would think from the way Americans go on that they invented the computer - Bill Clinton certainly seems to think so judging by his recent inaugural speech. In fact the first computer, the first electronic computer and the first computer able to store a computer program were all built in Britain.
Tonight, Fenella George meets the small team of mostly elderly men dedicated to saving and celebrating this great computer heritage by reconstructing those first machines. Members of the Computer Conservation Society are currently reconstructing the Mark One which ran the first stored program at Manchester University in 1948. All they have to work with is a few diagrams, a handful of photographs and some ancient parts discovered in store round the country and, occasionally, buried at the bottom of people's gardens - plus the fading memories of the early pioneers.
She also talks to two pioneers on the first business computer, developed by Lyons, the catering and teashop company after the war, and visits Bletchley Park, the site of a proposed national museum for computing. And throughout her travels she asks, Is this just another story of Britain's early innovation followed by slow decline?
A full transcript plus much additional
information will be online at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/the_net/
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The machinery of grace is always simple (Michael Donaghy) Less graceful email from Andrew Curry
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Andrew Curry <andrew@RICHFORD.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: THE NET (UK TV programme)
In-Reply-To: <858231776.1014919.0@maelstrom.stjohns.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
With the permission of the executive producer I am forwarding to Cyhist a note about an edition of the UK TV programme The Net, on early computing. It had a UK perspective, and the transcripts (see Web address below) may be of interest to Community Memory participants.
Andrew Curry
Programme Five: Memory
----------------------
Tonight, Monday February 17, at 11.15pm on BBC2, THE NET addresses memory and the digital world. The centrepiece of the programme is a specially extended piece about the early history of computing in Britain.
You would think from the way Americans go on that they invented the computer - Bill Clinton certainly seems to think so judging by his recent inaugural speech. In fact the first computer, the first electronic computer and the first computer able to store a computer program were all built in Britain.
Tonight, Fenella George meets the small team of mostly elderly men dedicated to saving and celebrating this great computer heritage by reconstructing those first machines. Members of the Computer Conservation Society are currently reconstructing the Mark One which ran the first stored program at Manchester University in 1948. All they have to work with is a few diagrams, a handful of photographs and some ancient parts discovered in store round the country and, occasionally, buried at the bottom of people's gardens - plus the fading memories of the early pioneers.
She also talks to two pioneers on the first business computer, developed by Lyons, the catering and teashop company after the war, and visits Bletchley Park, the site of a proposed national museum for computing. And throughout her travels she asks, Is this just another story of Britain's early innovation followed by slow decline?
A full transcript plus much additional
information will be online at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/the_net/
--
The machinery of grace is always simple (Michael Donaghy) Less graceful email from Andrew Curry
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