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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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  • 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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  • later Acorn Archimedes, were highly popular in Britain, while Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the educational computer market during the 1980s. Acorn...
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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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  • 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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    LOGO on the BBC computer and Acorn Electron. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-39566-2. Radburn, Derek. "Four Logos for the BBC Micro". The Micro User Education...
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  • internet worldwide. The BBC also developed several computers throughout the 1980s, most notably the BBC Micro (created as part of the BBC Computer Literacy...
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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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  • 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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  • repackaged BBC Micro, expanded to 64 KB RAM, to which was added (in some models) a second processor and extra memory to complement the Micro's 6502. The...
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  • BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, sometimes called "the Beeb" or "Auntie Beeb" BEEB, a BBC children's magazine published in 1985 BBC Micro,...
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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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    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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  • 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 Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers, to provide...
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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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  • 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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    "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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  • 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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  • Xara (section BBC Micro)
    variety of computer platforms, in chronological order: the Acorn Atom, BBC Micro, Z88, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and more recently...
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    Atom and Acorn System 2/3/4 computers in 1981. Also in that year the BBC Micro was released, initially with provision for floppy disc and Econet interface...
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  • single-player action-adventure video game originally published for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron in 1988 by Superior Software and later ported to the...
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