GE
The successor to the Archimedes, the RISC PC was used by many TV stations as the Omnibus automation systems ran on it. In fact when you reboot sequence/screens were very similar to those of the Archimedes and BBC computers, including 'Acorn DFS'.
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1294/741966169_4716de9671_z.jpg
BBC News were using these in TVC right until they moved out - it wouldn't surprise me greatly if there were still a few in use around the country.
thegeek
Founding member
The successor to the Archimedes, the RISC PC was used by many TV stations as the Omnibus automation systems ran on it. In fact when you reboot sequence/screens were very similar to those of the Archimedes and BBC computers, including 'Acorn DFS'.
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1294/741966169_4716de9671_z.jpg
BBC News were using these in TVC right until they moved out - it wouldn't surprise me greatly if there were still a few in use around the country.
IS
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1294/741966169_4716de9671_z.jpg
BBC News were using these in TVC right until they moved out - it wouldn't surprise me greatly if there were still a few in use around the country.
I think the actual machines stopped being made in the mid 2000s. I worked somewhere that was all Omnibus and I remember hearing that getting replacements was going to be a problem. I think we were down to our last keyboard, if I'd knocked another cup of tea over, we were in trouble!
Although right from day one we had some RISC machines, mainly for the backend and control rooms but most were PCs running a RISC emulator.
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1294/741966169_4716de9671_z.jpg
BBC News were using these in TVC right until they moved out - it wouldn't surprise me greatly if there were still a few in use around the country.
I think the actual machines stopped being made in the mid 2000s. I worked somewhere that was all Omnibus and I remember hearing that getting replacements was going to be a problem. I think we were down to our last keyboard, if I'd knocked another cup of tea over, we were in trouble!
Although right from day one we had some RISC machines, mainly for the backend and control rooms but most were PCs running a RISC emulator.
SP
Live and Kicking's DOG was generated from an Acorn machine. It crashed one morning and the Acorn desktop was superimposed over the VT they were showing at the time.
MW
Off-topic, apologies, but that sounds very similar to the treatment government departments are getting as a result of GOV.UK.
The new HMG brand? Yeah the parent of my organisation has their version of it, we are quite lucky and maintain our current crest
My employer (public sector) recently unveiled our new brand image; our logo is a crest, it's got our organisation name to the right of it - the new logo is just the organisation name written atop each other:
FIRST
SECOND LINE
THIRD
in Arial, but it's not Arial, it's OrganisationArial - the difference? A smaller dot above the lowercase 'I' and 'j'.
There's then the colour being ripped from the crest and making it flat and slapping it on plain blue backgrounds, this is now the brand image...
Pricetag: £106,000 of taxpayers' money.
FIRST
SECOND LINE
THIRD
in Arial, but it's not Arial, it's OrganisationArial - the difference? A smaller dot above the lowercase 'I' and 'j'.
There's then the colour being ripped from the crest and making it flat and slapping it on plain blue backgrounds, this is now the brand image...
Pricetag: £106,000 of taxpayers' money.
Off-topic, apologies, but that sounds very similar to the treatment government departments are getting as a result of GOV.UK.
The new HMG brand? Yeah the parent of my organisation has their version of it, we are quite lucky and maintain our current crest
ST
The new HMG brand? Yeah the parent of my organisation has their version of it, we are quite lucky and maintain our current crest
We got a similar new HMG logo and a new name: although the crest is the bog standard one, as that's what our owning Department uses.
The new HMG brand? Yeah the parent of my organisation has their version of it, we are quite lucky and maintain our current crest
We got a similar new HMG logo and a new name: although the crest is the bog standard one, as that's what our owning Department uses.