Collectaholics

6. Computers

BBC 2 Series 1 Episode 6
First broadcast 15th April 2015, 19:00
Duration: 48:41
Series exploring the weird and wonderful world of Britain's collectors. The team meet a collector who has transformed his home into an early 20th-century working cottage. Jasmine Harman, Professor of neural computation has 4 warehouses of 1000 obsolete computers.

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Jasmine Harman is visiting a man who's built four giant warehouses in his back garden to house his collection of more than 1,000 obsolete computers. 55-year-old Jim is a professor of neural computation and has dedicated his life to computers and how they work. He's spent the last 25 years accumulating everything from personal PCs, voting machines and home consoles, to giant super computers that used to run nuclear power stations and take up an entire room, but hold the same amount of power as your watch. Jim was recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's and wants to secure the future of his collection. Can Jasmine help him get recognition for his extraordinary collection? (Professor Jim Austin, Leo III cards, PDP 8, BBC Micro, Jim's Cool Computer, Supercomputers, Cray) A museum or learning centre?

Duration: 08:08

Other non Computer-related 'Collectables' content in this Episode

Duration: 37:54

tNMoC at Bletchley Park: Jasmine helps Professor Jim Austin get recognition for his extraordinary collection of more than 1,000 obsolete computers in East Yorkshire. The National Museum of Computing (tNMoC (The National Museum of Computing) at Bletchley Park - Colossus, Alan Turing, code breaking, Bill Tutt, Tommy Flowers) Moore's Law. University challenge: Thatcher election result calculation computer restoration, and The Computer Conservation Society

Duration: 10:52

tNMoC (The National Museum of Computing) at Bletchley Park - Colossus, Alan Turing, code breaking, Bill Tutt, Tommy Flowers)

Duration: 03:50

Other non Computer-related 'Collectables' content in this Episode

Duration: 16:21

End Titles

Duration: 00:29