Old Enough to Remember This?

[Benedict_Arnold]

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+tomorrows+world+compact+disc&view=detail&mid=EDAD7142726ABDD4E20EEDAD7142726ABDD4E20E&FORM=VIRE

 

[Al ears]

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+tomorrows+world+compact+disc&view=detail&mid=EDAD7142726ABDD4E20EEDAD7142726ABDD4E20E&FORM=VIRE

Yes, unfortunately..... ;-)

 

[MajorFubar]

Very much so. Anyone care to name the players?

 

[andyjm]

At the risk of sounding like an old duffer, interesting to compare the quality of the explanation with TV today. Excellent technical description, well presented and scientifically accurate.

 

[TomSawyer]

Yep- was on just before Top of the Pops. 7:00 Tomorrow's World, 7:30 TOTP on a Thursday, my two favourite programmes. Who would have thought I'd end up a guitar playing engineer?

One episode, they explained that the new Cray supercomputers were liquid cooled using a non conducting liquid and to demonstrate lowered a working big old tube TV into a fish tank of liquid so we could see the picture still working.

 

[Blacksabbath25]

I remember this jam on the cd disc *smile* I think the first cdplayers out at the time where the Philips and Sony

 

[Al ears]

Very much so. Anyone care to name the players?

One looks like a Phillips CD-100 and the last is a Sony.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

In those days, the BBC would have been sure to put black plastic tape over the badges.More interested to know what speakers they were using - Harbeths or something else back then?

Remember how they used to scrub the printing (or whatever it was) off the washing up liquid bottles on Blue Peter?

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

At the risk of sounding like an old duffer, interesting to compare the quality of the explanation with TV today. Excellent technical description, well presented and scientifically accurate.

I recently went for a job interview where the job is largely to explain technical oil and gas stuff to bankers who don't even fill up their own cars (probably). The 60-ish English guy interviewing me got it immediately when I said "Tomorrow's World". The American didn't.