The Fourth Protocol (1987)
John Preston uses a Viglen-modified BBC Micro to research the recent movements of Soviet block citizens.
Released in 1981, the BBC Micro was a popular computer in the UK, particularly in education as a result of its use in a BBC computer literacy programme.
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• The Fourth Protocol (1987) • Clockwise (1986) • The IT Crowd - Season 1 (2006) • Look Around You - Season 1 (2002) • Damon and Debbie - Episode 1 (1987) • Electric Dreams (1984) • Micro Men (2009) • Grange Hill - Season 11, Episode 5 (1988) • Ashes to Ashes - Season 3, Episode 1 (2010) • Supergirl (1984)
John Preston uses a Viglen-modified BBC Micro to research the recent movements of Soviet block citizens.
Mr Stimpson uses the Beeb to manage the school's timetable.
The Beeb is among the junk stacked up in the office.
The Beeb is used in this series' title sequence - a very simple BASIC program being typed in to display "Look Around You" repeatedly..
The computer lab is equipped with a number of Beebs.
The store that Miles buys his computer from also stocks BBC Micros.
These weren't common in the USA. Did Richard Branson take one with him, I wonder...?
On the shelves at the back, middle of the frame.
Acorn struggle to complete their computer for the BBC in time, but win the contract and are catapulted to success.
Gonch comes up with the idea of a PE reminder system, using one of the school's BBC computers to print reminder slips for pupils so that they do not forget their kit.
The kidnapped girl's father runs a computer company called Dot Matrix, where the staff use BBC Micros to develop games.
The game's graphics are a little advanced for the BBC Micro.
Supergirl assumes the identity of a normal schoolgirl she calls Linda Lee. Whilst at school she joins a computer class and BBC Micros are seen at the back of the classroom.
This would have been spot on if the film was set in Britain, but the BBC Micro was a major flop in the USA.
