* The BBC Micro

Posted on December 15th, 2008 by retrogeek. Filed under BBC MIcro.


Firstly, apologies to you all for an unexpected haiatus in retrogeekery. We’re back now, with an unregularly scheduled selection of prime 80s fun. I’d like to welcome a new contributer to the blog, imipak, who also has a stack of mouldering magazines in his collection and who has kindly offered to scan some for us:

And so, without further ado, here is the first contribution, from Personal Computer World, 1982, a ‘preview’ of ‘the most talked about machine in the history of the micro’, the BBC Microcomputer.



2 Responses to “The BBC Micro”

  1. jono Says:

    Nice to have you back, we were all getting worried. :-)

  2. retrogeek » Blog Archive » PCW Reviews the Spectrum, May 1982 Says:

    [...] BBC just pipped Sinclair to the post when it released the first UK colour home computer, the BBC Micro, in 1982, but it was the ZX Spectrum which stole the hearts and minds of the nation. Clive Sinclair [...]

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