We have to find ways off generating funds that keep us going.

So what we do commercially helps us do what we do for education.

One of those things that we do is hire out some of our machines to the world of TV and films, documentaries, all that kind of stuff.

Live events even, um, and make them do things that the director of this programme might want him to do.

So this is where the idea came from, to be honest.

So we were approached by, if I remember rightly something on Twitter on Grand Grand Linen Home was looking for some interesting props to put on the set for the second series of the I T crowd on Had just put a post out saying, What should I have there on?

Somebody says how you should get the beauty museum to supply some stuff and something I don't quite calm, quite remember the rest of them what happened, but ultimately we were in contact and he said, Okay, we've got some things we talked about some stuff, but then he said, Well, actually, if you have something like that behind Moss, the people that know are gonna freak out because it's quite a rain machine.

They're going to see that and go, Yeah, but that just doesn't that would not normally belong in an office like that.

They loved the idea.

And that's it was there that I think we had a vic 20 there when his X 81 in a wooden case, all sorts of weirdness.

But that was kind of the star, and then all of a sudden they started getting emails going.

This is not out there in the background on getting the job done.

That's what it was there for.

It's just that little nod to the nerds.

Did you provide the Internet this?

Jen?

It's the Internet.

We didn't provide the incident.

In fact, I tried to get the incident from him and wouldn't give it to me.

Sonny Shelf still is that it is a living room with, I think, Yeah, I wouldn't do it, but I know the box that it was made from what the projects in the works on what sorts of things have you supplied low to stop?

It's quite weird, actually.

The number of places old computers and old because It's more than just computers.

We supply all TVs.

It's just old tech fax machines, phones and anything s O Christmas.

Everything gets a bit nostalgic.

So the big supermarkets come to us and one old things to show those what with scenes of old family life.

I keep saying old, and it's not that all the recent one is ready.

Player.

One first person to find the egg will inherit half a trillion dollars.

We've supplied a lot of stuff to them.

Actually, not so much computers, but tons and tons of software, games, packages and things.

So they kind of watches out nearly software as far as I'm aware, and I haven't even seen it yet, just implemented our archive.

A spot of ology.

Possibly sorry, that would be interesting to say Cut, way to go see that.

But but yeah, there's quite a few films Eddie the Eagle and Old TV's in and out whenever they might want somebody interacting with a computer.

Then we might supply the machine, speculate, tell him what kind of machine they would have had, then maybe write some software that allows the actor just to basically do that on didn't come up with whatever the script requires.

So we have a box called Code like a Boss is basically just an Arduino in a box with the serial port so we can connect it to all terminals on whatever's required of the actor.

They do that perfect, perfectly form C code appears on the screen or a letter to the president.

I don't know, whatever just appears that new buy it at the moment.

It's in a hackney the bit on set.

So no, but we could We could do another video about that later.

It's just a nard we know it's nothing clever, but what's the weirdest thing or the wackiest thing that even asked for?

And he provided.

We've been asked for edible paper clips, which, which was interesting.

I don't think they really look to the website to see what we did, but we get way, get asked for a dentist chairs and completely while where the money for stuff.

But actually I'm more of a computer on topic for those that do actually read the websites way.

Currently being asked for what I thought was 50 IBM paces from a phone call you just overheard is now 60.

We couldn't even do the 50 let alone the sixties.

I don't know what's going on there.

So the best fun you?

No way.

It's really hard to do.

We've got about 18 machines here that we can use, but, yeah, I don't know what we do For the rest, we have to work that one out.

What's the trickiest part of it?

Is it?

Is it finding the things?

Is it making them work?

What's the trickiest thing about this industry timing?

They everything's wanted tomorrow.

That's a problem.

Yeah, I think the machines themselves.

I mean, everybody's well aware of how reliable the machines are.

Or maybe so.

We have to make sure they know that that means us.

Then maybe if they want one machine, they'll have to.

We'll have to have a backup in some way because actually, if you're on set and you're you're shooting, that could be 50 people.

Their time is all held up by this thing, not doing what it's supposed to be doing.

That doesn't go down very well.

So So, generally speaking, be trying having a second machine, even if if you can't do a second Shane, just another way of doing it.

Just a backup plan, different meaning that in a different way.

But as long as that shot he's done that day, that's all that matters.

So we have to work in those kind of really pressured.

But it's gotta happen.

That's actually the good fun of it.

You've got a whole bunch of people that are there.

Whatever happens that day, those shots will be gone.

And everybody has a very much of A can do attitude like you can't do this.

Let's try another way.

Let's do this and let's work out a way.

I really enjoyed that.

But yeah, I think for the machines themselves is just those little things where they say, Could it just do this?

Can we get you know, all the colors in the rainbow on this machine?

No, it's an eight bit machine.

It does eight and that's it.

Oh, really?

We wanted to show a photo, so yeah, I looked.

Do you have to temper people's expectations that way in terms of what would have been possible way, because we've all seen those programs on TV where they go bring up the CCTV now in hand, so we try and make sure the at least the person we're talking to in the first place is aware of what isn't.

What is impossible and actually way end up consulting on that basis anyway, in the first place.

But the thing is, there's more than one person involved.

So as it ends up down the line, we did get some interesting requests on set and upset people when it can't quite do what they want.

The nice thing about it is the I suppose you go back to when I was less than 10.

Probably so seventies.

Um, this is embarrassing.

I used to have a cardboard box with a screen cut out of it on a cardboard box with a keyboard cut out of it.

And I used to pretend that I had a computer because we didn't, you know, didn't get once about 1980.

You still got Yeah, of course.

Part of correction.

No, I don't still have it.

You've gotta So I don't have a picture.

And you didn't take pictures back there, did you?

Really?

It was expensive.

It was Yeah.

You took pictures.

Your holiday.

He didn't take pictures of everyday life.

No, I don't.

But the ironic part is, you know, Mountain 40?

No, basically doing the same thing.

You're still pretending with those machines, and it's actually really good fun.

So when you've got a machine there and then you write so it's a fairly simple stuff you write some code to put up on the latest one is kind of a spire number crunching thing coming up on the screen.

Great fun.

You know, it doesn't have to work is not really do anything.

It's just when it looks like.

And then in the background of the film, you've got this thing just ticking over.

It might not be focused, but you know that you know what you did to do it?

Yeah.

Getting paid to do things that don't really actually work, But they look good.

The other one, I suppose we forgot about Micro Man, which is one of the only ones we don't.

That was fantastic.

And again, you know, you're just writing these little routines and things that reflects what was going on inside.

It's a simple little graph drawing programs and stuff and actually is some of this stuff you do, and actually quite a lot but sometimes doesn't even make it on the film anyway, so the computer might be just there, but the camera's pointing.

Just hearing that works for nothing.

But you were in my commander's.

Well, yeah.

Yeah, it was.

So So what's hard on that field really hard and just giving it a ll the time I could.

I didn't get a haircut for that.

Well, then one day when they were at the museum and we were choosing bits and pieces to have around you've got kind of seventies looking here.

You will be in the field, Adam.

I ignore Thea the remark, and but But yeah, of course I'm gonna wanna be in it is trying to re breath for a pair of gardening gloves, so, yeah, there's no bit part in the acorn scenes.

Technically, I kind of played David Johnson Davis, but I didn't credit me.