I know you had them, as you see them in SuperGirl.
I always thought they were just a UK computer until I spotted them in SuperGirl.
I always thought they were just a UK computer until I spotted them in SuperGirl.
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It was not. It probably was used in Supergirl because it looks retro and neat. But.. Not many people have seen Supergirl, either..
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(1984_film)
I am on about the 1984 film.
If I remember they had them in the school she was at.
As I owned (still have two) BBC computers I got excited when they were in the film.Comment
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From the wikpedia BBC Micro Computer Page:
Efforts were made to market the machine in the United States and West Germany.[20] By October 1983, the US operation reported that American schools had placed orders with it totalling $21 million.[21] In one deployment in Lowell, Massachusetts valued at $177,000, 138 BBC Micros were installed in eight of the 27 schools in the city, with the computer's networking capabilities, educational credentials, and the availability of software with "high education quality" accompanied by "useful lesson plans and workbooks" all given as reasons for selecting Acorn's machine in preference to the competition from IBM, Apple and Commodore.[22] Another deployment in Phoenix, Arizona valued at $174,697 saw 175 BBC Micros installed, with the local Acorn dealer predicting sales worth $2 million in the following two years, split between 85 to 90 percent in education and the remainder in small business. In early 1984, Acorn claimed a US network of more than 1,000 dealers.[23]Comment
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They were never actually 'popular' here. Just the computer that was officially designated as the one that you learn on in school.
A few kids were able to get the parents to buy one for home, as it was 'Educational'... But if you could talk your parents into buying ANY of the other 8bit micros of the time Spectrum, C64, Dragon 32, Vic 20, etc etc, you wouldn't have chosen the BBC...Comment
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Was it popular in the US ?
Hint: in France we had the "MO5" and the "TO7".
Yeah, like those at school.
And i bet you never heard about it....Comment
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BBC is very popular in the USA.
BBC = Big Black Cock
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As explained in the Wikipedia link you posted, Supergirl was filmed in the UK and probably just used a real school for the scenes you're talking about.
Even the ZX Spectrum, one of the biggest selling computer models in history, is barely known in the US, where it was sold by Timex. In fact it's probably more well-known and remembered in former Soviet Bloc countries where it wasn't even on sale, but extensively cloned.__________________Comment
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Elite on the BBC was a great game, a space trading and fighting game where you could traffic slaves and drugs..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)Comment
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Minitel.
Otherwise you are right.
Minitel was supposed to be a very basic computer (c64 was much better) but with some "network" capability.
According to Wikipedia, you had the same thing in many country:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
It lasted very long in France.
For example i used a device like that to register to the university or to get the results of the equivalent of "end of highschool" diploma.Comment
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Supergirl was a British production from Cannon Films. It was filmed in the UK and released in the UK almost 5 months before it was released in the US. That is likely the reason the BBC Micro appears.Comment
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Starring the Computer - Supergirl
Handy little site that is - I just came across it while trying to identify an Amstrad PCW 8256 and thought of this thread.Comment
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To be fair, Brits often play iconic Americans; in this case the Apple II.Starring the Computer - Supergirl
This would have been spot on if the film was set in Britain, but the BBC Micro was a major flop in the USA.
I love sites that catalogue when [item] has appeared in movies or TV, particularly tech items.
The port scanner Nmap is used so much in movie "hacker" scenes they have a page about it on their site.
So that's what caused a plague of Zone Alarm popups 20 years ago?The UK's Scotland Yard Computer Crime Unit and the British Computer Society have put out a joint warning that "Viewers of the new box office blockbuster 'Matrix Reloaded' should not be tempted to emulate the realistic depiction of computer hacking." Kids - don't try this at home!
*scroll scroll*
Or was it this...
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