BBC Introduces Retro Computer Show, Syntax Era

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Alan Sugar may be asked to appear in it as the man behind Sinclair's Nemesis, the Amstrad CPC computer. The subsequent rise of the IBM PC compatible and with it Microsoft DOS eventually killed the whole gamut of diverse platforms that made computing back then so exciting.

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