BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [video]

Re:BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [... by jacquesm on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:30AM (#26249186)

Compared to your average 8 bitter at the time the keyboard of the BBC was pretty good. It was also the only one that didn't fail after a couple of weeks of heavy use.

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Re:BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [... by Mauricebranagh on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:02AM (#26249394)

It also had much nicer graphics.

At my first job we used one as colour front end to a PDP 11/03 that was attached to a huge hydrodynamic model- It largest physical model in the world at the time and used 1/3 of our entire lab space related to a nuke plant in China.

When the Chinese delegation arrived they where stunned by the BBC micro and apparently spent the next weekend scouring the area for BBC micros to take back.

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Re:BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [... by julian55 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:35AM (#26250970)

Interesting, my first job was also in hydrodynamic modelling using PDP-11/03 for data capture! I wonder if it was the same place? I left there in 1982 and I don't think they had any BBC Micros at that time.

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Re:BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [... by Mauricebranagh on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:01AM (#26261988)

BHRA (BHR Group now)

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