B B C micro
>>107024060Glorified speccy for posh kids.
>>107024060>naming oxymoron
>British Broadcast CorporationWhat does this have to do with computers?Why did they make this?
>>107024060Me dads got a BBC Master (actual name).
>>107024287gotta burn that TV license money to justify taking it again next year
>>107024302But that doesn't explain why they went into that unrelated market
>>107024287They didnt make it, Acorn did. Who went on to make the ARM processor
>>107024060We had them at school in the 80's and up until the early 90's. I also had a second hand one at home and played the Hobbit text adventure game, which I had to load into its memory every time I wanted to play through a cassette tape. I had some other games, like Hunchback and a Karate game, but they didn't work. I did some very beginner programming with it in BASIC
>>107024287>Why did they make this?Principally to be computers that supported their education goal, which they had as part of their public service charter. By standardising the equipment, they could standardise the teaching materials.As the systems were programmable (and included an assembler as well, and an extension port for plugging in homebrew hardware) you had a nice machine for /g/ type activities.
>>107024060>tranny keyboard>zoomer CRTIt's shit.
>be me, a fokkin brit>play jolly wankers on me bbc microuh>suddenly coppers at me door>"oi, do yuv 've a loisens fer tha' game sar?">bloody 'ell the coppers know me game is bootlegged like the queen's sitting chair>'ave to quickly roight this up with ye old white lie>"it's covered by me tv loisens innit?">me face when those wankers bought it
>>107024060ZX Spectrum
>>107026690luv me speccy simpl as
>>107024060They have the full tv movie about Acorn and Sinclair on youtube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamMIt's a bit silly and a lot of it probably made up for the movie (though Clive Sinclair hitting the founder of Acorn, Chris Curry, with a rolled-up newspaper in a pub did actually happen).
>>107026741brits are so dysgenic holy shit
>>107024287Soulful monopolist activities like designing/building their hardware in house just because they could instead of relying on meme markets
>>107026731>picThat sounds based. Is it fun to play?
>>107024287BBC started the Computer Literacy Project in the early 80s and wanted a computer of their own they could use for demonstrations on their TV series The Computer Programme.A lot of this was in response to the highly influential documentary series The Mighty Micro, predicting the coming micro computer revolution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiiQrLMqsm8&list=PL13dwmxpaKl5JJyC4L09uf_PFXkn6FlGA)
when tomorrow's world ended idiocy went up a gear.
>>107024060What's the difference between CAPS LOCK and SHIFT LOCK
>>107027633Shift Lock lets you type characters like * and ~ without holding down Shift.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC4YLMLar5I
Overengineered
>>107026190the BBC Micro was the first commercially available machine to support ARM processors (via an add in card)
>>107024060This was the first ARM machine
