ject. "People were abseiling down buildings to raise money for charity. I'm not
the sort of person who does that one bit," he said. He wasn't an artist, but he always liked the
idea of painting a mural. "I remember going past them with my parents, looking up and just
thinking they were the coolest things ever." He owned a house with a wall big enough to
paint one on, so he decided that would be his project. "That was the easy bit," he says.
Deciding what to paint was harder. One night, he discussed options with a friend. He had
decided it had to be something natural • murals of people "always look rubbish", he says •
and had been thinking about a tree, swaying in the wind. But the friend said, "What about
a wave?" And then both had the same thought... "HOW about that Japanese ONE ?" MY OWN personal BBC STORY, however, relates to my Journey of LiFE, during the time
of my involvement with Acorn and the BBC Computer Literacy Project.
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te of the launch of the BBC Microcomputer in support
of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, at the World Trade
Centre, Tower Bridge in London, in the January of 1982 •
I was honoured to have been subsequently chosen as
the stand manager of the Great British Micro Stand at
Didacta ’84 in Basle, Switzerland, and to have there
witnessed the European launch of Apple’s 128K
What You See Is What You Get WYSIWYG Macintosh on
a small stand adjacent to ours and here we are today
all these decades later, still not having found a truly
common-sense, metaphysical, multi-dimensional,
multimedia solution to ALL the issues and problems
that humanity [IS] NOW faced with, as we very rapidly
approach the 2030 SPIKE.
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