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From: pjmp@hrc63.co.uk (Peter Polkinghorne)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: BBC Computer
Message-ID: <276@hrc63.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 04:17:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: hrc63.276
Posted: Wed Sep  2 04:17:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 02:12:32 EDT
References: <4888@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <6473@felix.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjmp@hrc63 (Peter Polkinghorne)
Organization: GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley. U.K.
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Keywords: BBC

In article <6473@felix.UUCP> martin@felix.UUCP (Martin McKendry) writes:
>In article <4888@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> theodore@violet.berkeley.edu (Theodore W. Gray) writes:
>>
>>A teacher friend of mine asked me what I knew about the "BBC Computer", which
>>the BBC in England is said to have distrubuted to many schools there, along
...
>
>Given the general accuracy of Usenet, I have no problem stating that
>I believe that this *might* be the Acorn machine.  I forget the
...

And as an antidote to the general accuracy in usenet I give the following
information:

	The BBC Microcomputer System (of which we have several as cheap VT52s)
was made by Acorn to accompany an educational series of programmes put out
by the BBC ~5 years ago. It uses a 6502 and has the usual mix of RAM & ROM
with for the type of machine a nice keyboard and a lot of useful interfaces
such as RS232, RGB, a 1 Mhz bus etc.

	The BBC did not give them away, however the government in the UK put
some money into providing schools with computers. The Acorn machine Martin
refers to is a later Acorn product. I am sure someone from Acorn could add
to the accuracy of this information.

Peter Polkinghorne ( pjmp@uk.co.gec-rl-hrc or ...!mcvax!ukc!hrc63!pjmp )

Mebyon Kernow!