BBC Domesday Project

[vanpeebles]

Has anyone else been looking through the online BBC Domesday book? It's a lovely trip down memory lane. It's nice that they got it all online, as being an Acorn fan the project was something you always knew about but never had the chance to see it.

Some great pictures and stories about the C5 plus stuff like this:

"My favourite program is Dungeons and
Dragons and sometimes I play with my
computer which is a Sinclair Spectrum
48k,after a while i have to switch
because my mum wants to see the news.
I usually go to the playing fields to
8.00 then I come home I go to bed
about 9.00, or sometimes if I come
home early I can read."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday

[Dirty Sanchez]

Cool. I remember doing work at school on this project. Well chuffed when we had the laser disks back to have a look at.

[Flabio]

There was a piece on the BBC news site about the 'restoration' project. The images were all stored as single frames of a long video, and the software was basically able to freezeframe at the right place. All the text was encoded into the 'audio' stream partition of the laserdisc. All analogue formats, even though it's a digital medium. No such thing as jpeg or mp3 back then...

[vanpeebles]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-452000-402000/picture/2

46p!

[bwi]

man that has just taken me down memory lane. One pic i saw was from where i used to go on my BMX all the time and even now i've ridden through on my MTB recently. The pit has vanished in the distance and has now been replaced by houses and an Aldi.

going to have a good wade through it but i kist want to zoom on the pics but i expect that the photo size of 26k would have filled half a spectrum at the time lol.

bri