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- In ?1981 the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was looking for the ideal computer
for an open university course of computing, many little companies were striving to get
their machine nominated as "the computer", This machine from Acorn turned out to
be the winner and that is where it got its name "BBC" from. Other contenders I
know of where Sinclair and Newbrain, but I would have thought that there must have
been more contenders.
There were 2 models, the BBC A and the BBC B, the difference between the 2 was that
the Model A had 16 Kb and the Model B had 32Kb Ram.
- Its got a very extensive and extremely fast basic interpreter built inside, By far the
best basic available at that time.
- sound 3 channels
- graphics 640 x 256, 4 colours 320 x 256. max. 8 colours.
- Interfaces:
- UHF, video, RGB
- cassette
- Centronics
- RS-232
- diskdrive
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