Comments on: BBC Engineering Monographs from 1950s and '60s: Once 5 Shillings, Now Free http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/bbc-engineering-mono.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 09:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/bbc-engineering-mono.html#comment-980566 nixiebunny Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980566 It's amazing how big and expensive it was to make anything complex in electronics back then. Nowadays, we just program an FPGA chip to do all that stuff. It’s amazing how big and expensive it was to make anything complex in electronics back then. Nowadays, we just program an FPGA chip to do all that stuff.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/bbc-engineering-mono.html#comment-980856 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980856 There's a great documentary "in the Delian Mode" that tells of Delia Derbyshire's work. There’s a great documentary “in the Delian Mode” that tells of Delia Derbyshire’s work.

]]> By: meeware http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/bbc-engineering-mono.html#comment-982227 meeware Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-982227 Thanks so much for highlighting our online archive of documents: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/archived.shtml We're actually in the middle of a process to have as many of the old published documents as we possibly can fully scanned and OCRed so we can turn them into a fully searchable technical resource for engineers across the world. As we have more developments we'll post it on our blog : http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchanddevelopment/ We're finding the fundamental engineering research from our early days is having a resurgence in relevance as new display and audio technologies come through. So many of the basic assumptions of broadcasting are being challenged, and it's invaluable to be able to go back to the original work to see why, for instance, UK TVs refresh at 50 feilds per second, but 25 frames interlaced. If any BoingBoingers have a specific enquiry about technical work we've done in the past please don't hesitate to drop us an email- the contact details for us are on the web site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/contact/general.shtml Thanks so much for highlighting our online archive of documents:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/archived.shtml

We’re actually in the middle of a process to have as many of the old published documents as we possibly can fully scanned and OCRed so we can turn them into a fully searchable technical resource for engineers across the world. As we have more developments we’ll post it on our blog : http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/researchanddevelopment/

We’re finding the fundamental engineering research from our early days is having a resurgence in relevance as new display and audio technologies come through. So many of the basic assumptions of broadcasting are being challenged, and it’s invaluable to be able to go back to the original work to see why, for instance, UK TVs refresh at 50 feilds per second, but 25 frames interlaced.

If any BoingBoingers have a specific enquiry about technical work we’ve done in the past please don’t hesitate to drop us an email- the contact details for us are on the web site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/contact/general.shtml

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