> It was called the BBC Microcomputer; it was made by Acorn and > sponsored or something by the BBC, as an educational thing. > Schools got grants to buy either BBCs or RM 380Zs - nobody > bought the RM. It used a 6502, and had an interface to hook > up second processor units; you could get a faster 6502, a Z80 > or a 32016 32-bit chip. Apart from being a bit short of > program memory when you used hi-res graphics modes, the BBC > was the absolute dog's bollocks of home micros. It was the > only one to have any approximation to a real operating system > as opposed to a BASIC interpreter and very little else. > > Pigeon > >
I agree with this post. It did however come with a very good basic interpreter, and the hardware itself was quite expandable. It had all manner of input/output ports both digital and analogue, support rbg monitors aswell as rf (tv) output. I grew up using one, that and the zx81. heady days. Exciting times indeed. http://members.aol.com/mikebuk/beebem/download.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
