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| Lisa in use for weather diagrams |
Posted by: aladds on 2022-10-28 03:52:35
I stumbled across this video recently, which shows a Lisa being used to create weather diagrams for broadcast TV. It's from a children's show so somewhat simplified, but despite that the presenter not being at all familiar with a mouse is very strange to watch!
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Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2022-10-28 04:09:06
I could very well have watched this. I was 14 at the time. It doesn't ring a bell though. |
Posted by: stepleton on 2022-10-28 10:26:35
There was a Twitter thread about this a while back that I'm having trouble finding, and anyway no esteemed deed is commemorated there. The discussion turned up this BBC internal newsletter with a description of the system here:
https://www.bbceng.info/Eng_Inf/eng-inf-files/EngInf20.pdf (starting on PDF page 6)
plus a different, non-kids-show (I think) YT clip which unfortunately seems to have been taken down. I don't remember it being as complete as this video, though. Much briefer.
We assumed that the program on the Lisa was a custom one made in the Lisa Pascal Workshop (note use of the Lisa system font with its distinct V shape) but by someone who had replicated the menu structures and screen furniture that you found in a program like MacPaint.
At the time, a friend of ours was doing some refurbishment work in the former Television Centre. We instructed him to search closets for Lisas and other gear and he never returned...
...with anything of that nature. Oh well! |
Posted by: mactjaap on 2022-10-28 12:54:05
I have a Lisa ones belonged to the Dutch broadcaster NOS (similar as the BBC in the UK). Maybe also for the weather? |
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