Get (sponsor) Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/NostalgiaNerd - Enter promo code NostalgiaNerd to get 83% and 4 extra months for FREE during Black Friday! ~ Back in the 1980s, the Computer Literacy Project and the government's campaign to get Micros in schools, turned the UK upside-down. As children, no longer were classrooms a place of paper and chalkboards; now we had technology in the corner, namely, the BBC Micro (for most schools, at least). But along with the iconic, sturdy lines of the BBC Micro, there was another piece of kit ever present, and that was the Microvitec Cuc 452. Where-ever the BBC went, the Microvitec Cub went, and so, UK kids in teh 80s were brought up, in part, by these screens. Learning to type through them, learning to game through them, and learning to develop through them. We really spent a lot of time looking at them, and for that reason, they're incredibly important.

Here then, is the story of Microvitec and their Cub monitors.

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0:00 Introduction
0:49 The BBC Micro
4:57 The Microvitec Cub Story
14:26 Is it a Good Monitor?
16:26 SurfShark
17:46 Microvitec After the Cub
19:22 Credits

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