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    The BBC Master is a home computer released by Acorn Computers in early 1986. It was designed and built for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and...
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    with the BBC brand, the phrase "BBC Micro" is usually used colloquially to refer to the first six (Model A, B, B+64, B+128, Master 128, and Master Compact);...
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    in London, known for competing in the UK's reality cookery TV series BBC MasterChef: The Professionals in 2020. Declared first runner up, Santosh is credited...
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  • factory in Blackburn, England. Viewing the discs required a BBC Master AIV - an Acorn BBC Master expanded with a SCSI controller and the 65C102 "Turbo" co-processor...
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  • second processor. BASIC IV, also known as CMOS BASIC, available on the BBC Master machines, was changed to use the new instructions available in the 65SC12...
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    characters were used to switch between regular text and box drawing. The BBC Master and later Acorn computers have the soft font by default defined with line...
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  • was also spending a large portion of its reserves on development: the BBC Master was being developed; the ARM project was underway; the Acorn Business...
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    BBC Three is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was first launched on 9 February 2003 with programmes...
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  • Shadow RAM, on the Acorn BBC Micro, Master-series and Acorn Electron microcomputers is the name given to a special framebuffer implementation to free...
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  • The Master Game is a BBC production of televised chess tournaments that ran for seven series on BBC2 from 1976 to 1983. Presented by Jeremy James with...
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    BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and...
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    contestants". BBC. "BBC One serves up sizzling new Celebrity MasterChef line-up for summer 2023". BBC. "Shine TV's MasterChef launches BBC Three series"...
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  • Game The Master. FASA. ISBN 0-931787-94-7. Moffat, Steven (writer); Henderson, John (director) (12 March 1999). The Curse of Fatal Death. BBC. BBC One. "Doctor...
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    He is known for co-presenting MasterChef, Celebrity MasterChef and MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC One and BBC Two. He has written regularly for...
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  • MasterChef: The Professionals is a BBC television competitive cooking show which aired on BBC Two from 2008 to 2019, and on BBC One since 2020. It is...
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    restaurant column for the Evening Standard. She is a regular critic on the BBC's MasterChef UK and has appeared on Channel 4's television series Very British...
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    base of the BBC Micro while those users were still using the machine. In 1986, Acorn introduced the BBC Master series, starting with the Master 128 which...
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    specialises in Mauritian food. She was the first woman of colour to win BBC's MasterChef in 2012. Permalloo was born and brought up in Southampton and identifies...
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    arcade video games, and home computers (TI-99/4A, BBC Micro, ColecoVision, IBM PCjr, Tomy Tutor, Master System, Game Gear, Tandy 1000), competing with the...
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    MasterChef Australia is an Australian competitive cooking reality show based on the original British MasterChef. It is produced by Endemol Shine Australia...
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  • Judith Bingham and Harry Christophers. In 1924, the BBC engaged Stanford Robinson as Chorus Master. He formed a choir for a performance of Rutland Boughton's...
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    other physical formats. The BBC can instead then to continue to preserve original master material in their secure vaults. BBC Archives has contingencies...
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  • Reference Manual for the BBC Master Series. Watford Electronics. 1988. Coll, John (1982) [1982]. Allen, David (ed.). The BBC Microcomputer User Guide...
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    one second processor unit could be connected at a time to a BBC Micro, although a Master 128 could also have a co-processor fitted internally at the same...
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  • 16-bit addressing, could use more than 64 KB, i.e. 128 KB RAM, also the BBC Master with it expandable to 512 KB of RAM. While in general 8-bit CPUs have...
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    sufficiently upgraded BBC Micro or BBC Master computers. The Level 1 product offered access to existing Acorn DFS discs via a BBC Model B with Econet,...
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    Computers Acorn Eurocard systems Acorn System 1 Acorn Atom BBC Micro Acorn Electron BBC Master Acorn Archimedes RiscPC Acorn Network Computer Amstrad Amstrad...
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  • ViewSheet supplied on ROM and cartridge for the BBC Micro/Acorn Electron and included as standard in the BBC Master and Acorn Business Computer. Acornsoft was...
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  • Master and Margarita'". Variety. Retrieved 2 February 2024. "The Master and Margarita: The Russian box-office hit that criticised the state". www.bbc...
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  • The sideways address space on the Acorn BBC Microcomputer, Electron and Master-series microcomputer was Acorn's bank switching implementation, providing...
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