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From The Register
BBC Micro creators meet to TRACE machine's legacy Ah, memories! ![]()
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I only ever had the tape drive, my cousins had the dual 5 1/4" fdd version.
fdd's where so fast in those days (well compared to tape!) |
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Oh yes, that's right, I forgot! I had the duel 5 1/4 too! I THINK it was double density too.
Oh, and a word processing eprom(?)
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Don't think we had that.
I do remember typing in code from magazines to try and make programs / games. |
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What mag was it? I can't remember. Like you I remember typing them in and initially saving it all onto cassette.
The Teletext adapter allowed you to download all the Teletext pages (I made my own daily newspaper) and you could also download a few shortish programmes, can't remember what they were though but it did save having to type them in! I can hear violins!
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I remeber using these in school. Even when I left secondary school we had 3 of these in active service.
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You are making me feel old(er)!
You saying school has reminded me that I used to look after the BBC Micro's at the Primary school my wife was teaching at. They had two I recall.
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I used to spray the bugs on the old Speccy.
Breakout too. |
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I think when I left one of them was actually a BBC Master ?? Was a lot bigger than the B and A versions we had, it was like a full sized keyboard.
I also remeber when leaving primary school that they got rid of the BBC stuff, and started importing the RM Nimbus things in.
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Here is the BBC emulator I use http://www.mikebuk.dsl.pipex.com/beebem/
it also has some links or google "BBC lives" |
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The BBC B (and A and Master) do indeed still lives - if only in memory
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These things were so expensive!
I remember my school buying loads of them, what a waste of money! The basic was good for vector graphics (A bit like simon's basic for the c64) Even when the cheaper 'acorn electron' came out, I wasn't convinced. I'd already tasted the pleasures of the zx81 and vic20 ![]() One thing I remember is that you had to be in the top set of maths to get anywhere near a computer at school in the early 80s. So while there was a class full of number heads wanting to calculate math problems at school. The more imaginative of us learnt to code at home on our zx81/specy/vic20/dragon32/c64. |
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![]() These things were so expensive! The BBC was a complete enthusiast machine, it was complete in virtually every way. Complete keyboard, user expansion IO buses, BASIC, everything was as good as you could get. The only things that were limited were due to either the BBC (8+8 flashing rather than 16 colours) and the CPU/FDC which became obselete during the lifetime of the machine. This hardware vendor's (commodore indirectly and intel) control made the machine expensive to make and because of the contract with the BBC they couldn't just redesign for quite a while. I had a ZX81, Spectrum and a vic20 and they were vastly inferior in terms of developement, general design and build quality. You couldn't breath to hard near your ZX81 or the rampak would fall out, the general reliance on edgecard connection rather than IDC for all the comparable machines was cheap and dodgy. This was what you were paying for a machine designed by engineers for enthusiasts without cutting corners just to make it cheap. You want to play games then the spectrum and 64 was your best choice, you want to design/build projects then the BBC was king. You want to run unix, CPM, DOS etc then you can with a BBC how about the others, nope. The BBC was almost infinately expandable as standard, just plug it in and away you go. You want an example of the expansion cababilities just look at the commodore floppy drive, ha, the tape record from was faster this was how short sighted the other micro designer were. Last edited by moog; 03-April-2008 at 11:40. |
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![]() People keep going on about how expensive they were, however there was a good reason for the high price relative to the other machines you mentioned. It's awful to hear someone dissing the old 1541 disk drive! Its like watching someone punch your grandad! ![]() Yes the bbc was definately a high quality machine, but I never had much of a chance to get near one! I was mainly commenting on the fact that most people had no choice but to learn on other machines. And the bbc micro felt (at the time) a computer for the 'Elite' Excuse the pun ![]() |
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I certainly did (do) not consider myself 'Elite'! I just bought a computer I could just afford etc.
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I'm sorry I am not Elite either, I just wanted a machine to develope rather than just play games. here follow this link to b3ta it should bring it all backhttp://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
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![]() I'm sorry I am not Elite either, I just wanted a machine to develope rather than just play games. here follow this link to b3ta it should bring it all backhttp://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/ I can still remember that maths teacher who was the boss of the bbc micros! This is some childhood issue I have to work out ![]() |
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