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Re:BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989 by dijit on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:47AM (#22693497)
> As an aside, nobody writes BBC BASIC on a C64. You write the C64 variant.

My mum only knew BBC Basic, so that's what was loaded first and I remember it distinctly. It may have been emulated, it certainly wasn't the default thing that came up when you powered the unit on, you had to "load" it from a tape deck and it took 30 minutes.

Re:BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989 by bencollier49 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:26PM (#22697605)
Re:BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989 by dijit on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:10PM (#22698491)
Well, that’s a nostalgic image! Thanks for finding it!