Thomas F. :verified:
Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop?
Gary 
Scott D. Strader 😐@WiteWulf @losttourist I love Han Solo's reaction there.
oarnd
Chris Mackay 🇨🇦
Deus Ex MacGuffin 
@tantramar @sstrader @WiteWulf @losttourist
I can't believe you would get that so wrong. That's Dumbledore and he's Luke's father!
Linebyline
Bee O'Problem 
Kevin Karhan 
@losttourist THEY HAD 1 JOB!
undeuxtrois
Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶
Frank Heijkamp@losttourist Anything as long as it looks convincing to the audience.
Raymond Russell
honk if you want to honk 
DJDarren@losttourist Fair and impartial. Exactly what I pay my licence fee for.
@DJDarren @losttourist BUT LINUX! 😭😭😭
Easter Wax.@losttourist Researchers earning their salaries again.
Judith@losttourist Oh good grief! I can imagine a 20 year old research assistant being told to go and get an "old computer". There are still plenty of us around who remember when that was a NEW computer. Why don't they ask a grown-up for advice?
Damon L. Wakes@aroundthehills @losttourist Regrettably, most people don't even know what an operating system is, regardless of age. Also it's possible the person responsible knew this wasn't a Windows device but it was the only old computer available under the circumstances. Why make up a young whippersnapper to get mad at?
Ellen
Rick Gundlach@aroundthehills @losttourist That's what I was thinking. Some youngster isn't really going to know that that was an Apple and it didn't run Windows. Or how to use a rotary phone, and would jump at the start of a dot matrix printer. The world moves on leaving the aging behind.
mtc_uk@hoofin @aroundthehills @losttourist Maybe, just maybe, if one is doing a piece on the 30th anniversary of something, one should get someone older than 30 to do the research — or maybe someone, anyone, just to do research, full stop.
@mtconleyuk @hoofin @losttourist
I find it strange that someone thought that the 30th anniversary of Windows 95 is significant [and it probably is; I remember going to a very flash launch event] but not bothering to properly research it. It's as if everything from The Olden Days is much-of-a-muchness and the details don't really matter.
bewilderbeast23@aroundthehills @losttourist Oh grownups are so old school. They'd have launched into a long story. Meantime I dressed the window . .
dick_turpin 
@losttourist Where did I put my surprised face?
François @Jura
@FrancoisPrague @losttourist As long as the Total Commander window is open for the rescue nothing can happen 😂
David - Forking Mad@losttourist where the hell is this BBC Verify outfit when you need it! 🙄
@losttourist I like to think that this was top level trolling by some IT literate researcher :)
Toni Aittoniemi
kit@losttourist It’s always nice to see that the BBC is consistent with their treatment of facts on complex topics, and fine example of the trustworthiness that that treatment should entail.
rastilinYeah, I mean maybe thinking went into it, but realistically, they probably didn't give it any thought at all and just did the plausible bare minimum.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Is it just me, or does it look like that poor Mac is being bullied by a rogue gang of Microsoft operating systems?
Dgar@losttourist glorious
Mark HThe first B in BBC stands for "bunch of fucking amateurs".
Dr. Unabart 
@neonbubble The remaining BC stands for Black Cock.
ohmrunBabble of Bilious Cretins
Tuchowski
Ryan Walmsley@losttourist I saw this, this morning and my first reaction was why the fuck a Mac.
Then my next question was how long before I'd see a post about it, it turns out within 1 minute of opening up Masto.
fak@losttourist they didn't want to be accused of bias so included something from Macintosh as well as something from Microsoft.
Brokar@losttourist vibe presentation
the keyword is "almost".
Chris Newton
1995, by Molly Nilsson
from the album Zenith
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️
eWeThat is entirely intentional. A misconception of balance: we are discussing product A, so product B must also be mentioned...
A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSCAlso, here's 5000 stories on Nigel Farage and Reform and 0 stories on anyone else.
That's the modern BBC, right wing authoritarian propagandists and genocide supporting zionists.
Hermannus Stegeman
Orion the Elder@losttourist The set dressed by someone that probably wasn't alive in 1995. 😂
Ivor Hewitt
kianryan ☑️🐙🏳️🌈
thesweetcheat@losttourist disappointed that they didn't find a 1980s BBC Micro to display. Surely the DG has one on his desk?
drsilas
unvisual@losttourist I think this is a genius tableau showing the past and future of Windows. With the MS-DOS 6 box showing us what MS left behind, the late 80s Macintosh SE telling us that the GUI was the path to take, the many floppies hinting at the need for better portable storage media and lastly the 1998 Microsoft Internet Keyboard showing us that the future is online. 🙃
DeltaLima 🐧@losttourist The legendary 68000 port of Windows 95 :p
ozzie 
@losttourist Hey, at least the keyboard says Microsoft 🤣.
sortius 
@losttourist with the right card in the NuBus port it'd run Windows 95