Date   : Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:31:28 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Beeb, this was your grandma!

Greg Cook wrote:

> A TV-licensing-related blockage, no doubt.

A geographical rights issue, I think?


> I can't find another source for the video (i.e. not on YouTube)

Did you get as many Nell*Y* Furtado videos as I did? Sometimes the 
sounds-like search can be useful, sometimes it can be annoying...


> but it's basically Nellie, a room-sized computer made of replaceable packages,
 > playing tunes and noughts-and-crosses

It's WOPR! :-)


 > of pupils at Forest Grammar School run around fixing and programming it,

I Googled "nellie computer" and halfway down the first page was the BBC 
link, followed by one that said:
   Details. Operating System, Vista Business Edition x64 ...

That explains it. :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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