teknohed
01-26-2010, 10:02 AM
So old UK mike got me pretty keyed up to see Micromen (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92). I'm sure everyone here heard the episode in which UK described it, but if not it's basically a comedy / drama about the historic rivalry of micro computer pioneers Sir Clive Sinclair (Inventor of that silly british tri-cycle thing and some computer that no one has ever heard of) and Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers whose computer company has a sweet owl logo:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I0L2iMziVjw/Rynr517FglI/AAAAAAAABFI/m--o609ci28/s160/BBC%2BMicro%2BOwl.png
Anyway this show was on BBC 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92) which means despite our superior selection of cable channels here in teh states I will not likely be able to see this any time soon.
Luckily for me (and any other US lovers of obscure british microcomputers) there might be a sneaky way for us to check this out.
According to SeeSaw (http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/01/26/seesaw-uks-answer-hulu-begins-beta-trial-today/]Next Weblog[/URL] there is a beta program starting for a british HuLu knock off called [URL="http://www.seesaw.com/login) . According to Next Weblog, SeeSaw (http://www.seesaw.com/login) will include programming from BBC Four. I'm hoping that Micro Men would be included.
Otherwise I'm going to have to try to wait and get this on Amazon UK, but then what'll I do, I dn't have a PAL TV. Maybe if i play it on my computer...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I0L2iMziVjw/Rynr517FglI/AAAAAAAABFI/m--o609ci28/s160/BBC%2BMicro%2BOwl.png
Anyway this show was on BBC 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92) which means despite our superior selection of cable channels here in teh states I will not likely be able to see this any time soon.
Luckily for me (and any other US lovers of obscure british microcomputers) there might be a sneaky way for us to check this out.
According to SeeSaw (http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/01/26/seesaw-uks-answer-hulu-begins-beta-trial-today/]Next Weblog[/URL] there is a beta program starting for a british HuLu knock off called [URL="http://www.seesaw.com/login) . According to Next Weblog, SeeSaw (http://www.seesaw.com/login) will include programming from BBC Four. I'm hoping that Micro Men would be included.
Otherwise I'm going to have to try to wait and get this on Amazon UK, but then what'll I do, I dn't have a PAL TV. Maybe if i play it on my computer...