This is the BBC.

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This is the BBC.

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I scored this for a freebie, I've never owned a BBC despite owning and using the 32 bit Acorns on a regular bases. I don't think it will keep me from the QL but it will be nice to try Elite and revisit Grannies Garden from my junior school days. 8-)

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Sadly missing the z80 card for the Torch drive setup. There is a receipt online of someone elses and it cost nearly 1000 quid in the early 80s. :o


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Interestingly the Raspberry Pi foundation have named there two versions of their upcoming computer Model A and Model B in light of wanting to regenerate the experiences of BBC and similar retro feel programming.

Also here is a pic from the Computer Museum of the second processors for the BBC, 6502 I believe and quite big :)

https://picasaweb.google.com/1087615291 ... uterMuseum


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Mr_Navigator wrote:Interestingly the Raspberry Pi foundation have named there two versions of their upcoming computer Model A and Model B in light of wanting to regenerate the experiences of BBC and similar retro feel programming.
And there is an effort on to port RISC OS to Raspberry Pi too, so BASIC V (ie BBC Basic on steroids) will be available :)

They have ir running I think, but the peripherals are causing some problems at the mo (being USB).


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Sparrowhawk wrote:
Mr_Navigator wrote: And there is an effort on to port RISC OS to Raspberry Pi too, so BASIC V (ie BBC Basic on steroids) will be available :)
So, can we also refer to SBASIC as "SuperBASIC on steroids" ?
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