Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
04-10-2026 10:29 via theregister.com

Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40

Decades before the modern web, the BBC Domesday Project dared to archive an entire nation using…. what else – massive LV-ROM (LaserVision Read Only Memory) LaserDiscs. To mark the impending 40th anniversary of the BBC Domesday Project's release, the UK's Centre for Computing History (CCH) hosted a celebration at its museum on September 19, bringing together several of the original team members responsible for the system. One was Mike Tibbetts, an assistant to Peter Armstrong, the BB
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