The Computer Programme: 3 -- Talking to a Machine

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1981

Creator: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Produced by the BBC Defines and discusses computer languages, focusing on BASIC. Chris Serle commands a computer-controlled robot art as he translates his English into BASIC. Ian McNaught-Davis examines an early Argus 200 computer, which received its instructions directly from a hand-placed arrangement of ferrite plugs, and a steam organ, which "understands" the language of a deck of perforated cards


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