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The return of the BBC Micro
Anyone who was at school (or was the parent of a young child) in the 1980s or early 1990s will remember the BBC series of computers. Built by the lamented British company Acorn Computers, the BBC models A and B* and the later BBC Master were remarkably powerful for their time, and made appearances in schools up and down the land.
Last week, in a reunion organised by the Computer Conservation Society, some of the pioneers of the BBC computers met at the Science Museum in London to discuss the computer and the times. You can read parts of the interviews at, of course, the BBC's website.
Interestingly, Acorn lives on today, in a very different form. Its
former subsidiary, ARM, which made the processor chips for the
company's Archimedes computers, is today a global power in the small
processor field. In fact, it's fairly likely that you have one of its
Arm processors inside your mobile phone.
* the link is to a fan site that, endearingly, displays a "Site of the day, August 14, 1996" badge on its homepage
Posted by Anthony Dhanendran on March 25, 2008 | Permalink
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