The old order changeth, and how – back at the end of the 1970s, Ted Dexter and Honeywell Information Systems Ltd got together to propose to the British Broadcasting Corporation that television coverage of cricket could be enhanced with a little judicious computer intervention and the age of computer-aided sports broadcasting was born: for a decade and more a Level 6 minicomputer or successor followed the cameras and trundled around the cricket grounds of England and Wales in the back of a truck as Honeywell and successor company Bull HN Information Systems Ltd maintained the tradition – but with the first one-day match of the current series against Australia at Old Trafford yesterday, what was the legend at the bottom of the caption but Intel processing.
