jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Jeffreys) (08/20/85)
> In the late Tom Baker and the Davison episodes, we sometimes see some > computer monitors hanging around, either in the Tardis, or the places the > Doctor visits. If the displays were actually computer-generated, does anyone > know what computer was used? It looks like to me that they used a BBC micro > (the characters, for one, are similar), but I have no concrete evidence to > confirm it. > Kriton (princeton!tilt!kyrimis) When the BBC did "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy", which contained a lot of graphics, they decided to use animation instead of computer graphics because of the large amount of time and money they could save. With the small amounts of graphics used in Dr Who, I would not be surprised if they did use the BBC micro. [As a side note, The BBC have put out a series of television programmes, about computers, in which they were using only the BBC micro. The programme was aimed specifically at people with very little, or no, working knowledge of computers. An announcement was made after each programme, giving an address which you could send away to for your own BBC micro!] -- [ It's not the end of the world....no it's not; If it's the end of the world, well so what ? - Marti Webb ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || From the keys of Richard Jeffreys ( British Citizen Overseas ) || || employed by North American Philips Corporation || || @ AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, Illinois || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ || General disclaimer about anything and everything that I may have typed || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------