About the show

Our annual film show in which Kevin and Dan have assembled their usual varied collection of old film and video material concerning old computers for your amusement and delight. If that sound less than side splitting, if past years are anythging to go by, you‘d be underestimating them.

This year we even have an advance list of material which they will present -

1. Tony Sales’ introduction to the CCS [May 1990].
2. Clips from “In-Steam'” days in the Old Canteen at The Science Museum including the first run up of the Elliot 401 Drum - Pegasus, PDP8, PDP12, CP/M, Difference Engine, Elliott 803 [April 1993].
3. Joint lecture with the Computer Arts Society [March 2004].
4. Advert break - Ford Fiesta advert built partly by a team originally from the Cambridge CAD centre [1997].
5. “Head on Back” a seminar on Manchester Computers - introduced by Simon Lavington and followed by Tom Kilburn [May 1991].
6. Advert break - more on the Ford Fiesta [1979].
7. Lyons and the Tea Program [February 2005].
8. PDP12 up and running in the Old Canteen - Stuart Rosen, UCL, Speech Synthesis [October 1991].
9. Tony Sale collecting oral histories - Ex-employee of Elliott [July 1993].
10. Charles Norrie and the Haringey Totalisator - Including film from GLIAS [March 1993].
11. Microsoft Excel launch video from 1987 [November 1987].