BBC Micro - Market impact - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro
The BBC Micro, affectionately known as the Beeb, was an early home computer. It was designed and built by Acorn Computers Ltd for the Bri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Market Impact
The machine was released as the BBC Microcomputer in early 1982. The machine was wildly popular in the UK; as with Sinclair's ZX Spectrum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Specifications
Four independent sound channels (one noise and 3 melodic) using the Texas Instruments SN76489 sound chip Built-in hardware support incl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Trivia
Musician Vince Clarke of the British synth pop bands Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure used a BBC Micro (and later a BBC Master) with UMI ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Background
The BBC wanted to base its project on a microcomputer capable of performing various tasks which they could then demonstrate in their TV s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Description
BBC Micro - Hardware features Models A and B. The Model A had 16 KB of user RAM; the Model B had 32 KB of user RAM. A particularly nice...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Successor Machines And The Retro Scene
A cut-down version of the BBC Micro, intended more for game playing was the Acorn Electron (1983); games were written specially for the E...   » Read the article