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    The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy...
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    The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or stylized as micro:bit) is an open source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for...
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  • the original version, was shipped on early BBC Micros. BASIC II was used on the Acorn Electron and BBC Micros shipped after 1982, including the Model B...
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  • the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s...
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  • In the BBC Microcomputer System, the Tube is the expansion interface and architecture which allows the BBC Micro to communicate with a second processor...
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    was accepted to become the BBC Micro, with it falling to Wilson to develop its operating system and its version of BASIC, BBC BASIC — at 16K and 16K respectively...
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  • The Computer Programme (category BBC programme ID same as Wikidata)
    BBC wanted to use their own computer, so the BBC Micro was developed by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, and was featured...
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    A BBC Micro expansion unit, for the BBC Micro is one of a number of peripherals in a box with the same profile and styling as the main computer. The second...
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  • Micro Men is a 2009 one-off BBC drama television programme set in the late 1970s and the early-mid 1980s, about the rise of the British home computer...
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  • fault tolerance. Acorn Computers' first widely successful design was the BBC Micro, introduced in December 1981. This was a relatively conventional machine...
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  • vendor Micro Mobility Systems, Swiss company producing kickscooters Micro, a mostly-obsolete term for a microcomputer, e.g.: BBC Micro BBC Micro Bit, or...
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    the BBC Micro Model B. The Master 128 remained in production until 1993. The Master series featured several improvements over earlier BBC Micro models...
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  • Break key (section BBC Micro)
    computer, without a Break key, maps the function to Ctrl+Space. On a BBC Micro computer, the Break key generates a hardware reset which would normally...
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    of Teddington and Cambridge, England. A contemporary of the ZX80 and BBC Micro, the NewBrain was mostly used in business settings. It is notable for...
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  • charity Russian Air Force, often shortened to ВВС in Cyrillic BBC Micro, a 1980s home computer BBC BASIC, a programming language BBCode, a message board markup...
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    Retrieved 21 September 2023. Acorn (1983). BBC Micro Teletext System User Guide. Acorn (1985). BBC Micro Cambridge Coprocessor User Guide NS32016. Acorn...
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    Following on from Acorn's involvement with the BBC Micro, two of the first models—the A305 and A310—were given the BBC branding. The name "Acorn Archimedes" is...
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    "potential BBC Micro 2.0", not by replacing PC compatible machines but by supplementing them. In March 2012 Stephen Pritchard echoed the BBC Micro successor...
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    the Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers Ltd, to provide...
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  • Thor, VIC-20 Cybertron Mission, Micro Power, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, C64 Diamond Mine, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, others Fred, Investronica, ZX Spectrum...
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  • Elite (video game) (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games)
    Braben and Ian Bell and was originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984. Elite's open-ended game...
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  • Manic Miner (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games)
    "typewriter". The game was officially ported to the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 16, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Game Boy Advance, mobile phones...
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    Microcomputer (redirect from Micro-computer)
    8-bit home computers (such as the Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and TRS-80) and small-business CP/M-based microcomputers. In colloquial...
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    ZX81 (section BBC Micro bid)
    on the Acorn Atom. To Sinclair's dismay, the contract to produce the BBC Micro went to Acorn, which launched the machine in January 1982. Paul Kriwaczek...
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  • released on other popular home microcomputers, namely the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and MSX. The series stars Sabreman, who is depicted wearing...
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  • to: BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, sometimes called the Beeb or Auntie Beeb BEEB, a BBC children's magazine published in 1985 BBC Micro, a...
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  • was carried out on a VAX-11/750 mini-computer, assisted by a network of BBC Micro microcomputers. The discs were mastered, produced, and tested by the Philips...
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  • Mined-Out (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games)
    ported to other computers including the Dragon 32, Camputers Lynx, Oric, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Mined-Out was a financial success, allowing Andrew...
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  • The Micro User (titled BBC Micro User in the first three issues) was a British specialist magazine catering to users of the BBC Microcomputer series,...
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    Martin Edmondson and Nicholas Chamberlain started developing games for the BBC Micro under the moniker "Reflections" in 1984. Their first game was a Paperboy...
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