Okay, when I posted about the television personalities that have pitched computers, I didn’t think that that would become a series. Yet, when I saw a comment from reader ThomasD, I had to prep another one considering, frankly, that one is weird.

The ad features the fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, and then-current companion Romana, played by Lalla Ward, which puts the commercial sometime around 1980. The Prime automated office system seems to be a part of Prime Computer, a Massachusetts-based company that produced microcomputers from 1972 until 1992. According to the wonderful world of Wikipedia, the office automaton system that Who and Romana talk about featured electronic mail

that functioned within Prime networks only and word processing on dumb terminals.

This is a very strange ad. Even for the Doctor Who episodes of the era, the writing on that commercial was sub-par. Plus, why would the doctor need a rigid computer system like that when the systems on the TARDIS could probably handle billions of processes trillions of nanoseconds faster. Coming from such an advanced race as the instance Lords you would think that they would have some style of word processing! Unless, they were all using Windows. Ohhh, the horror!

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Original post by Richard Keller