Date   : Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:22:34 +0100
From   : "Peter Edwards" <samwise@...>
Subject: Re: OT? BBC B communications through time

> In article <20040913003112.BKON4745.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@...>,
>    Peter Edwards <samwise@...> wrote:
> 
> [Edword from beyond the grave]
> 
> > Yeah, so ... just wondered if anyone else had heard of it
> 
> Is this the same one that was described on the rather poor 
> ITV series whose
> name escapes me, but was presented by Carol Vorderman. That 
> was definitely a
> BBC micro, and I remember her describing that it had to be 
> true because this
> was X (where X was some large number) before computers could 
> be networked. 
> 
> Eh? Come on Carol, do your research, beebs had Econet.
> 
> Then I turned off,
> Sprow.

Yeah, I think that's the one.  If you saw it on ITV, it must've been
repackaged and sold on.  The guy apparently called in someone from the
Society for Psychical Research to help catch the hoaxer or prove there
wasn't one.  This investigator started spouting all sorts of technical
rubbish, even so far as suggesting the messages could've been typed by
someone outside the cottage through the earth cable ... I mean I've heard of
trials into networking over power cables more recently - but in 1985??  With
an unmodified BBC B?? Absolutely ludicrous! ...

Me?  I would've asked Mike Cook from the Beeb Body Building Course to come
take a look ... ;)

Peter.