Date   : Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:24:51 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: weird places that BBC micros could be found (

2008/6/25 Mike <profpep@...>:

> There was also, (though I missed one by a few days), a terminal for
> 'Interflora' that I think may have been Electron based.

Yep, definitely Electron-based. It was actually badged as a BT Merlin
with a yellow label. It had a matching box on the back that looked
like an oversized Plus 1, which contained the modem and all the
necessary software in ROM. I remember seeing one of these in a flower
shop back in the days when I used an Electron as my main machine, and
I was hugely impressed that they were being used in the wild in such a
way.

Not really BBC-related, but I remember going to see a couple of
episodes of Supermarket Sweep being filmed at the Central (now
Carlton) TV studios in Nottingham, in the late 90s. There was a
Commodore 64C doing something on the control desk at the front of the
studio, in sight of the audience. I always wondered what it was for.

-- 
Alex Taylor