Was the BBC micro popular in the USA?
 

I know you had them, as you see them in SuperGirl.

I always thought they were just a UK computer until I spotted them in SuperGirl.

It was not. It probably was used in Supergirl because it looks retro and neat. But.. Not many people have seen Supergirl, either..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(1984_film)

I am on about the 1984 film.

If I remember they had them in the school she was at.

As I owned (still have two) BBC computers I got excited when they were in the film.

I think I must be the only person who enjoyed the film.

From the wikpedia BBC Micro Computer Page:

Oh lol, I thought it was a newer movie like Batgirl..

I've never seen one of those, though, but I did see a lot of Commodores and Apple IIs. I wasn't born yet in 1984, tho..

No.

It was in the SuperGirl film.

It gets slated a lot, but to be honest, it is not that bad.

Some of the effects are not bad.

The only thing that spoilt it was the soppy love thing and the drip of a boyfriend.

In the film you see them in her school.

I remember how excited I was as I did not know they had them in the USA.

They may have been a product placement.

They were never actually 'popular' here. Just the computer that was officially designated as the one that you learn on in school.

A few kids were able to get the parents to buy one for home, as it was 'Educational'... But if you could talk your parents into buying ANY of the other 8bit micros of the time Spectrum, C64, Dragon 32, Vic 20, etc etc, you wouldn't have chosen the BBC...

Was it popular in the US ?

Hint: in France we had the "MO5" and the "TO7".
Yeah, like those at school.
And i bet you never heard about it....

BBC is very popular in the USA.

BBC = Big Black Cock

:2 cents:

Back in the day I heard of Mini Tels in France. I heard that you had to pay per minute or hour to use them, too, but I have no idea since that was so long ago.

As explained in the Wikipedia link you posted, Supergirl was filmed in the UK and probably just used a real school for the scenes you're talking about.

Even the ZX Spectrum, one of the biggest selling computer models in history, is barely known in the US, where it was sold by Timex. In fact it's probably more well-known and remembered in former Soviet Bloc countries where it wasn't even on sale, but extensively cloned.

Elite on the BBC was a great game, a space trading and fighting game where you could traffic slaves and drugs..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

Minitel.
Otherwise you are right.
Minitel was supposed to be a very basic computer (c64 was much better) but with some "network" capability.

According to Wikipedia, you had the same thing in many country:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

It lasted very long in France.
For example i used a device like that to register to the university or to get the results of the equivalent of "end of highschool" diploma.

Supergirl was a British production from Cannon Films. It was filmed in the UK and released in the UK almost 5 months before it was released in the US. That is likely the reason the BBC Micro appears.

A lot of the film was shot at pinewood studios and in other parts of the UK - So it's entirely plausible (& I haven't seen the movie for years) that the parts that have the BBCs in, were Infact English Locations?

It was pretty much a British production. The film was even released over your way months before it came out in the US.

The PBBC runs the US, so of course it's popular here.

That game was a mind fuck, eventually I got lost and I could play for hours and not see/find anything else, so I just had to walk away from it or start again.

As also explained on the Wikipedia page it was produced by Alexander and Ilya Salkind, not Cannon Films.

Weird thread is weird.

Oh cool. I've always wondered why in high school French class, some vocabulary pages in the text book would show a computer, and instead of ordinateur, it said Minitel. If it was popular for a long time, then that makes sense.

Yo mamma?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Starring the Computer - Supergirl

Handy little site that is - I just came across it while trying to identify an Amstrad PCW 8256 and thought of this thread.

To be fair, Brits often play iconic Americans; in this case the Apple II.


:thumbsup I love sites that catalogue when [item] has appeared in movies or TV, particularly tech items.

The port scanner Nmap is used so much in movie "hacker" scenes they have a page about it on their site.

So that's what caused a plague of Zone Alarm popups 20 years ago?

*scroll scroll*

Or was it this...

https://i.imgur.com/dSFdXVx.jpeg

Yep you could play it for days, funny though, teaching kids you got rich quick trafficing slaves and drugs.

Incorrect.

White cock is the most sought after in the USA.

https://i.huffpost.com/gen/2054870/original.jpg

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/okcupid-race_n_5811840

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/201...d0eefd.png?s=5

Black men get the lowest response rates on dating sites.

Quit your bullshit. :2 cents:

Wilt the Stilt did okay for himself...

7 feet tall (freakish genetics) + world-famous (fame/$$$) + black (will fuck anything that walks) = ~20k claimed body count (with 0 known children)