BBC Micro Creators Reunite In London 213
mustrum_ridcully writes "This week some of the original creators from Acorn Computers who developed the BBC Micro home computer are coming together again at the Science Museum in London to discuss the legacy of the computer fondly known in the UK as 'the Beeb'. This news is being carried, of course, on the BBC. The BBC Micro sold some 1.5 million units and helped fund Acorn's development work on the Acorn RISC Machine processor — also known as the ARM processor used today in countless mobile and embedded devices."
Good but Dull (Score:5, Insightful)
At home is where you had a ZX Spectrum, and where you had free reign and did the real inventive programming.
The Beeb was probably the better machine, but the speccy was where the real fun was.
Re:Good but Dull (Score:4, Insightful)
Extrapolation: the machine you had at home was the fun one. True whether Beeb, Spectrum, C64...whatever.
I had friends with Beebs and enjoyed messing around with them. I had a Spectrum 48k myself and enjoyed messing with that (wireframe vector graphics in Spectrum BASIC anyone? Anyone? No, didn't think so...). I also moved to the C64 and enjoyed messing with that.
It's whatever you got free reign on, not what the specific platform was.
Cheers,
Ian
Greed prevented world domination (Score:1, Insightful)
But the idiots in charge of the Archimedes' price refused to bring the price down - they would rather sell a few at a large profit per unit, and then lose the market, than sell the most at a smaller profit per unit...
Re:I loved the BBC Micro (Score:2, Insightful)