'Meet the computer addicts' with this BBC report from 1983 that makes my daily PC habits look pretty dire by comparison

Back in the days of my youth, by which I mean 1983, literally four years before I was born, BBC's Newsnight released a short report detailing the habits of a new type of person entirely, what it then classified as «computer addicts». 

These were the beginnings of home computing, a time when something like the Commodore was just starting to become viable as a home computing platform that ordinary people—or in this case, unnecessarily demonised nerds of the finest quality—might keep in their spare room.

And now, thanks to the BBC archives, you too can revel in their glory (via Digital Trends). The report follows several of these forward-thinking pioneers as they talk about their daily usage of these mysterious «computers», including the revelation that one of them likes to spend his lunchtimes in the pub. 

Not to drink beer, like any self-respecting British citizen of the time, however, but to play videogames, even on his lunchbreak. You wouldn't catch me doing that sort of thing. No siree.

Chris Carter, a then operations manager in the computer department of a borough council office, is shown not only using his computer at work, doing useful things for the benefit of society, but also enjoying one in his free time as well. 

That being said, his wife seems to be less enamoured with the stresses and strains put upon their relationship by his hobby. Chris is said to put 20-40 hours a week behind the keyboard, and as a result his partner says she hardly sees him.

Those are rookie numbers, Chris. Rookie numbers.

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Later we're introduced to businessman Graham Hawker, who, rather than enjoying what the voiceover identifies as a «bright and sunny day, just right for a stroll in the fresh air», is instead sat inside, enamoured with his latest videogame. Graham must locate a princess who's been abducted by a wizard, with his path being awkwardly blocked by a giant, and as a result has