# The Computer Programme: 3 -- Talking to a Machine

Produced by the BBC

Defines and discusses computer languages, focusing on BASIC. Chris Serle commands a computer-controlled robot art as he translates his English into BASIC. Ian McNaught-Davis examines an early Argus 200 computer, which received its instructions directly from a hand-placed arrangement of ferrite plugs, and a steam organ, which "understands" the language of a deck of perforated cards

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1981
- By: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, Films Incorporated
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/thecomputerprogramme3talkingtoamachine)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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