As part of the BBC's Computers Don't Bite campaign, The Learning Zone follows two families - the Lyons family and the Plummer family - on their quest to buy their first family computer. The Plummers have decided to buy their computer direct from the manufacturers via mail order, they have carried out research by reading computer magazines. The Lyons have chosen to buy their computer at a specialist electronics shop, where they can get advice from a salesperson. Presenters Sue Davis and Dave Green have advice for anybody buying their first computer, with helpful explanations of unfamiliar terms like "RAM", "ROM", "Hard drive" and "clock speed," and instructions about how to set the machine up once you've bought it. Clip taken from The Learning Zone: Computers Don't Bite: Getting Started at Home, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 18 May, 1998. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1 You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive
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I still think 1998 was only a few years ago!
17:09 was this the worlds first ever unboxing video ?
13:31 the boy looks like he in front of the headmaster being told off !
I miss so much the days when computers were like any other appliance in your home instead of having your life revolving around them. And a british kid wearing a Flamengo jersey in the 90s was pretty random as well.
It was less about the PC and more about the computer desk you put it on. Big wooden corner unit, with drawers and spots for your blank CD-R/DVD-R discs, magazines and snacks and a lava lamp on he side. You felt like you were immersed in another world, with the right setup in your bedroom.
21:02 - Daughter is fed up of dads explaining. She has already learnt this in school.
phew. I thought she wasn't going to introduce the cat for a second then... 🐈
Computers don’t bite, they byte
1:31 That cat looked fake until she petted it and it was actually real!
That list of preinstalled games at 24:40 for the nice family with two young kids: Duke 3D, Diablo, Doom95, Quake, Dungeon Keeper, Fatal…
All those PC boxes hanging out of the back of the Jag had me on the floor 😂😂😂 16:40
Watching the conversation with the salesman, it's quite remarkable how steep the learning curve would be for a consumer like the mum. Clock speeds, hard disks, RAM - this would probably be completely alien to people. It’s not like today where we've had 30 years of personal computers, are used to regular upgrades etc. When she said she wanted one that would last a few years, it's like she was thinking it would be like a boiler or something 😂
1:36 😂 Smut! What a fantastic name for a cat!
" i got through to the support after 3 rings" .. we'll never hear that again
"Playing games on them and that is not what they are for",.........Little did he know, he entered the master race
LGR should really see this
One of my best childhood memories was getting a Pentium 75MHz PC for Christmas in 1995. Going from playing Mega drive games to DOOM and EF2000 was absolutely mind-blowing. And then there was the amazing Encarta 96. It felt like having the whole world on a CD-ROM
This was the perfect opportunity to say "Computers don't BYTE"
Salesman: with this one you won't need to update for 3-4 years 😂😂😂 you'll be lucky if you get past 6 months before it's out of date
The family coming to a consensus on having a Microsoft Works shortcut on the desktop is adorable.