All the information was recorded on two virtually indestructible interactive videodiscs that could be accessed using a special BBC microcomputer system. But the videodiscs far outlived the computer system, without which they proved useless. Now researchers working as part of the CAMiLEON project - based at Leeds University and the University of Michigan, in the United States - say they have cracked the problem. They have developed software which emulates the obsolete BBC computer and videodisc player on which the original system ran.
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