Computers are the big thing this year

All the kids are gone bananas about computers. There’s approximately 1,000 Commodore 64s in Irish schools. In 1983.

Gay Byrne on the Late Late Toy Show in 1983 interviewed nine year old Oric whizz kid, Mark Feldman who has been playing games since he was six, and thirteen year old Johnson McEvoy who does programming and games and creates graphics.

Nice demo of the Commodore 64, playing some sort of typing tutor game too! I had no idea the C64 was ever on the Late Late Show!

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3 thoughts on “Computers are the big thing this year

  1. @donncha ^^^here's a bit of computing history for you, @womump , from the notorious Late Late Toy Show, Irish institution

  2. @donncha C64 still going strong today to! I have 9!!

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