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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 Project of the BBC. The machine was the focus of a number of educational BBC TV programmes on computer literacy, starting with The Computer Programme in 1982, followed by Making the Most ...
In the early 1930s, the BBC became aware of RCA's model 44 ribbon microphone that was used in Hollywood. [1] [6] Each pair of microphone and amplifier would have cost the BBC £130 (approximately £6,500 in 2009. because of inflation) [6] [7]). As this was not within the BBC's budget, they designed their own microphone, the Type A, alongside ...
BBC Micro - Colloquial term for a Model A/B/B+64K/B+128K, or a Master/Master Compact at a stretch; Acorn Proton - The name of the Model A/B while it was a Literacy Project candidate machine. When it won the contract it became the first 'BBC Micro' (BBC A, BBC B). The name Acorn Proton is not well known.
Interior of the 6502 Second Processor. The 6502 Second Processor (using a 6502C) was clocked at 3 MHz, a full 50% faster than the 6502 inside a BBC Model B, and also had 64 KB of RAM, of which typically 30–44 KB was free for application data (compared to as little as 8.5 KB on an unexpanded Model B in graphics mode, or only 5.75 KB with the disc interface).
Although Acorn had based its expansion into the United States on the BBC Micro, the company did have plans to introduce the Electron at a later time, [28] [29] with Chris Curry having indicated "a very heavy push overseas" involving both the BBC Micro and Electron. [3] A model for the US market was described in an official book, The Acorn Guide ...
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, Acorn Electron, Acorn Archimedes and, to a limited extent, the Cambridge Z88.
The BBC Micro shipped with a single ROM, containing BBC BASIC; further ROMs can be added to the computer to add software that will remain available at all times. The Electron's sideways address space was exposed only by the addition of a Plus 1 add-on or a third-party equivalent; the Plus 1 also introduced cartridge slots that were carried over ...
Torch Computers Ltd was a computer hardware company with origins in a 1982 joint venture between Acorn Computers and Climar Group [1] that led to the development of the Communicator or C-series computer, a system based on the BBC Micro with a Z80 second processor and integral modem, intended as a viewdata terminal.