Retro News

Posted by stephen on Thursday, 05th January, 2006 @ 15:30

I was watching the ITV Lunchtime News today and one of their features was post, phone and email scams. Of course, this features some stock footage of post coming through the door, a text message on an ancient Nokia phone and a picture of someone using a computer, which I've screen grabbed...

Notice anything? It's an Amiga 500 Plus, circa 1991 or there abouts. The guy using it is even fiddling around with the Workbench 2.04 icons. Well, I could suggest that this computer isn't even usable on the net, but that's not true, I got my A500 online, albeit by upgrading to Workbench 3.1, 5Mb of RAM and a 120Mb hard disk. Still, I think it's not necessarily the most appropriate bit of video to show someone online.

However, I thought it was rather cool to see an Amiga on TV, it's been a few years since CBBC and Fun House gave them away as their stock prize. I wonder what the original context for this footage was.