Two Interesting pieces of obscure computer history came to light via the BBC today, one of which I'm amazed to see I'd already watched and contacted people about.
This video...
About the history of the development of the Amiga, I'd watched about a year ago, and I contacted R J Mical about whether he had any more of his talks video's and could upload them. He even contacted me back asking about USB connectivity from video recorders - sorry R J I'm in the UK and was unable to help.
But then this article appeared today on the BBC, quite obviously they're talking about the Amiga Launch video which is tacked onto the end of the Amiga History video I had watched, in the above video skip to the 58th minute.
It's interesting to see the PIC format described as un-readable, I can read it on my Atari ST's... If they'd have asked, I could have opened the format, converted it to 256bit BMP and re-saved it in about 15 minutes...
The other computing Gem was this article:
Specifically the reference to Chris having created the first every Computer Promo for a Music single, which has been uploaded to YouTube for a few years now, but which did have me very interested:
I'm surprised with it appearing on the BBC it still only has around 10,000 views though.
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