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At the beginning of the 90's both Philips and Commodore has a vision of an new class of home entertainment system, that would sit under the Big TV in the living room next the to VHS recorder, that would educate and entertain the masses. It wold not be a hoe computer or a games console but its own thing.

I would like to thank a few people who help with this months video.

Jonny Blanchard ReEnthused (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYF-5rMVfnI48w48EW2g3hA) who helped me out, by kindly letting me use some of his games footage when my composite to hdmi box died. His channel covers loads of wonderful old systems, including a whole bunch of ones you may never have seen.

Zombieworkshop again for his artwork (http://www.zombiworkshop.com/) it is really worth checking out his artwork, and if you need some doing he's always open to doing commissions.

Also if you're into light gun games the channel I mentioned that was worth checking out is GouldFish On Games (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Ee7qQWiSZDcdTnXB6fBfw)

Its trope embracing time, so why not go for the 1024 Subscriber Q&A. I may also throw in some unboxing too.

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After finally bringing the Amiga to the market sales are not going as well as hoped, everyone praises the Amiga but it cost too much for most consumers. Commodore needed a cost reduced Amiga, but how would Commodore get the costs down without losing what the Amiga is, how will this A500 fair.

This video features a particularly mouldy A500, can it be saved, will it ever smell ok ever again ? Why not find out why I try to fix it, and we look at how the A500 came to be.

This video covers Chuck Peddle the designer of the 6502 processor, and the computer company he started after MOS, Sirius Systems Technology. We look at his career, and the first and only computer Sirius made, the Sirius 1, or the Victor 9000 as it was called in Europe.

Following on from the first video covering the history of Econet, this video covers building your own Econet Network with real hardware, and in emulation.

The first section covers building an Econet network, including getting an Econet interface in your Beeb, cabling and the clock box, we then look at building a level 3 server. The video then covers emulation, and an alternative file server for Linux and OS X, Windows.

If you're interested in the history of Econet have a look at Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GrtpuWxhHY)

The fun business sim game intended to educate and entertain school kids, and well it was more fun than actual lessons. So come see the delights of this mode 7 classic as we create that tea shop experience (ok we may have improved the visuals a tad).

I would like to thank all the contributors to this video.

I would also like to thank Rose Tinned Spectrum for getting me in contact with Stu.

If you fancy having a go at playing Tea shop, you can find it on the BBC Archive (http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2884) and play it in your web browser.

In the 1980's the BBC micro ruled the roost in UK schools, but most of those BBCs where not standalone machines, part of their success was that a BBC could be a connected machine. Acorn's Econet was used to link BBCs together, and provide network services.

Acorn Econet gave the BBC Micro access to file and print services, e-mail, viewdata, messaging, chat applications, remote control, databases, and plenty of other applications. The x.25 gateway even allowed an Econet network to be connected to a public network, and connect to universities, VAX and a mainframe systems.

Econet was the mostly widely deployed LAN technology in the UK at one point with over 10,000 networks, all at a point in time when Bill Gates had yet to learn what a network was.

I would like to thank Prof. Alan Macfarlen for his kind permission to use his interview with Hermann Hauser. He has recorded a number of interviews with leading figures, which I would encourage viewers to have a look at. http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/audiovisual.html

I would also like to thanks ZombiWorkshop for using his impressive talents on my behalf once again producing some art assets for this video (the Owl I used in the short animated section). He also produced all the channel art you see for me as well. So if you would like to see more of his work (and who wouldn't) have a look at his website http://www.zombiworkshop.com/

This video looks at IBM's attempt to move the PC market to its new bus, so it could get licensing fees from the clone vendors, and instead lost their technical leadership of the PC.

I also look at and restore a Dolch Pac 62, a rare luggable PC from the 90's complete with an E-ISA bus (see it is on topic).

The Compaq portable is the first ever legitimate IBM compatible PC. Before the Compaq Portable IBM was the only company to legally make a PC compatible with its software, so sit back a watch the tail of how a newly formed company took on the mighty IBM and got it's portable to market and ushered in the era of the IBM compatible PC.

This video also shows me repairing my Compaq Portable, and shows off some games in glorious green screen.

Amazingly this little channel has hit 128 subscriptions which is a much bigger number than the zero I thought it would get.

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