Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown with me or Decodus.

I'm here. We got the Dodlson messages, cryptic computer warnings from the past, and the future. That sounds real,

because messages from the future are real things that definitely happen.

They don't.

Thank you to Danny, wrote the script.

I've never read it before.

We're going to learn about it together today.

And that sounds like fun, doesn't it?

Let's jump in. When the BBC Micro Home Computer was first rolled out in late 1981, it was marketed as an innovative

step into a new dimension. The BBC Micro Model B. It was designed to be the ultimate home help, a gateway to private education for your kids,

and your personal electronic accountant all rolled into one flashy piece of kit for just 400 pounds in 1980s is a lot of pounds today

and I'm like now I'm sure this was like really impressive at the part in the past in like 1981, but it's like,

oh, it can do accounting.

What to, don't tell me, it's got a spreadsheet functions.

Now you can just go to drive.goo.com and it's like,

boom, spreadsheets, easy.

That might seem a bit steep nowadays,

considering that we can cram far more power and functionality

into a single free app on our phones

than the BBC Micro could ever hope to muster.

The marketing also didn't take into account that all everyone ever really wanted to do on

the BBC Micro was play Chuck E.

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