The Learning Zone | Buying Your First Family Computer (1998)

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The Learning Zone | Buying Your First Family Computer (1998)

As part of the BBC's Computers Don't Bite campaign, The Learning Zone follows two families - the Lyons family and the Plummer family - on their quest to buy their first family computer.

The Plummers have decided to buy their computer direct from the manufacturers via mail order, they have carried out research by reading computer magazines.

The Lyons have chosen to buy their computer at a specialist electronics shop, where they can get advice from a salesperson.

Presenters Sue Davis and Dave Green have advice for anybody buying their first computer, with helpful explanations of unfamiliar terms like "RAM", "ROM", "Hard drive" and "clock speed," and instructions about how to set the machine up once you've bought it.

Clip taken from The Learning Zone: Computers Don't Bite: Getting Started at Home, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 18 May, 1998.

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The Learning Zone | Buying Your First Family Computer (1998)

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