1986 Domesday project

red_dwarfers · Unread post by **red_dwarfers** » 13 May 2011, 18:11

Last year me and a couple of friends had the honour of playing around with a fully working BBC Domesday machine. An amazing use of the technology at the time documenting a snapshot of the life in the 80s, mostly by school children so accuracy could be a bit of an issue

Unfortunately due to the shear cost of the setup, not many people got to see the hard work they put into it. The BBC have now reproduced the majority of it on the Internet for all to see, hopefully a more permanent home as last time a preservation project was up on the net the organiser unfortunately passed away and so did his site.

I really am very excited

Heres the link

HDI · Unread post by **HDI** » 14 May 2011, 10:07

There is a feature about this on Radio 4 today sometime, this evening I think.

spider · Unread post by **spider** » 14 May 2011, 10:36

A friends setup:

http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/Domesday/DomesdayHome.html

red_dwarfers · Unread post by **red_dwarfers** » 14 May 2011, 10:43

HDI wrote:There is a feature about this on Radio 4 today sometime, this evening I think.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll be keenly listening later on.

spider wrote:A friends setup:

http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/Domesday/DomesdayHome.html

That's the very machine I had a play on, very knowledgeable bloke is Ian!

HDI · Unread post by **HDI** » 14 May 2011, 10:56

Here's the details on that radio programme tonight at 8,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112913

spider · Unread post by **spider** » 14 May 2011, 16:08

red_dwarfers wrote:That's the very machine I had a play on, very knowledgeable bloke is Ian!

Indeed he is.

, I've brought a few bits and pieces off him over the past few years.