5 . Impact and legacy of the BBC Micro | BBC Micro at 40
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- čas přidán 25. 01. 2022
- The BBC had wanted to go beyond purely TV programmes in its campaign, with a machine that could ensure adults and children got hands-on experience of using a computer.
Acorn’s product would open up brand-new opportunities to children, teens and adults and lay the foundations of future careers.
Demand for the BBC Micro was insatiable: the Beeb exceeded sales targets and saw Acorn grow rapidly - from turnover of less than £1 million to more than £20 million in just two years.
Herman Hauser, Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber discuss the impact and legacy of the BBC Micro.
Recorded winter 2021. - Věda a technologie
Sophie hit the nail on the head... coding on a BBC Micro set me up with a career that I am still working in, despite some twists and turns on the way :-)
Regarding the legacy - a whole generation of people learned how to program on BBC micros. I suspect that quite a few of us found a natural career path involving embedded ARM. The ARM instruction set is a thing of beauty, for the so-inclined. Well done the Acorn team and thanks TNMOC for running this series 👍👏👌.
素晴らしい👍👍👍😊
Still have my beeb. Needed a new keyboard and psu because of lengthy loft storage. Also found a few floppy disks and drive. Most of the games I created loaded and saved away to sd card. Hope to show these soon.
I really wish that you had broken into the US market. Why? Because it would be a lot easier for me, an old Brit living in the US, to pick up a used Micro to play with!
A great shame as the bbc basic was faster and superior to majority of 8 bit machines at the time. Would have liked 64k ram on the machine I got if I could change one thing.
I bought mine quite late in 1986, I just thought it was more for programming and controlling outside things that the others on offer which appeared to be aimed at the gamers.
I still have it today along with many other Acorn machines.
Bill Gates tried to sell them DomestOS? - well that went down the toilet...lol
Why is Herman Hauser wearing a coat and shirt on a beach???
You neglected your Commonwealth helpers, we are 2.4 BILLION ..and yet there is a collective inferiority complex.
The BBC Micro didn’t have much of an impact in the Commonwealth. Apart from Tasmania, apparently.