40 mins from The Silicon Factor: What’s it all About? (BBC, March 1980)
Includes a quick tour of the fab at Mullards in Southampton (became part of Philips, and made teletext chips among others - 10 million chips a year, apparently.
Prestel gets a mention. And Lucas tells us all about the computerisation of cars. Donald Michie gets a soundbite about robots.
Screenshot: retail computer shop (“Micro Computer Centre”) with Commodore PETs
Quote:
Last year, 50% of new toys sold in America were based on microelectronics
Screenshot - an unknown large transistor based computer used, apparently, in the context of guided missiles:
All three programmes in this series are available on this website, but probably only for UK users, and users of VPNs: