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	BBC Micro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The project was initiated largely in response to an extremely influential BBC documentary The Mighty Micro, in which Dr. Christopher Evans from the National Physical Laboratory predicted the coming (micro)computer revolution and its impact on the economy, industry and lifestyle of the United Kingdom.
		The BBC discussed the issue with Sir Clive Sinclair, who tried to offer the unsuccessful Grundy NewBrain micro to them, but it came nowhere near the specification the BBC had drawn up, and was rejected.
		The BBC Micro provided in-game graphics for the BBC TV show "The Adventure Game", where the BREAK key on the keyboard was covered by a plastic box to prevent accidental pressing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_Micro (2001 words)

	The BBC lives! -- Introduction & History
		The BBC had serious discussions with Clive Sinclair (or Sir Clive), who tried to peddle the terrible "NewBrain" micro to them, but it came nowhere near the specification the BBC had drawn up, and was rejected.
		BBC Education made several series "starring" the BBC Micro, which included: "The Computer Programme", "Making the Most of The Micro", "Computers In Control" (about robots and other hardware), "Micro Live" (weekly computer news magazine), and it also made the ground-breaking "Domesday Project" in 1986.
		BBC Radio 4 had a programme called "The Chip Shop" which broadcast some software for the BBC Micro that could be taped and then loaded.
	bbc.nvg.org /history.php3 (3572 words)

	BBC Micro and Electron Games - The Stairway To Hell - History
		The BBC required a home computer to complement their upcoming television series and, as nothing on the market at the time was deemed to be suitable, they issued a specification list to which the new micro must conform and invited proposals from the leading manufacturers.
		The BBC Micro was originally available in two flavours: the 16k Model A (£235, later increased to £299) and the 32k Model B (£335, later increased to £399).
		Perhaps its most notable accomplishment was ousting the BBC Micro from third spot in the hardware charts, whilst the Commodore 64 and 48k Spectrum lead the field.
	www.stairwaytohell.com /history.html (1303 words)

	Help and Information : BBC Micro Mailing List Archive
		The BBC Micro mailing list is a list is for discussion of all aspects of the BBC Microcomputer and related machines such as the Acorn Electron and BBC Master Series.
		The BBC Micro Mailing List Archive is intended to be as complete as possible archive of posts to the BBC Micro mailing list from the very beginning to the present day and beyond.
		This archive is wholly unofficial and has no connection to the BBC Micro mailing list or James Fidell other than to provide a useful web resource for both members of the list and the general public.
	www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk /Archive/BBCMicro/help (1259 words)

	BBC B Micro review. Electronics & Computing Monthly December 1982
		If you are aware of the early history of the BBC Micro project you may know that the 6502 was specifically ruled out in the early specifications for the machine, which stipulated a Z80 CPU.
		The BBC Micro (Model B) is not just another all-singing, all-dancing home computer, it is the basis of a really powerful system and one that will last into an exciting future.
		The BBC Micro has a standard 7-pin DIN audio socket and the User Guide advises you to obtain a lead with "suitable plugs for your particular recorder" at one end and either a 7-pin DIN or a 5-pin DIN at the other.
	www.sli-institute.ac.uk /~bob/bbc_b_review.htm (1923 words)

	The BBC Computer Literacy Project - The BBC Micro (1981)
		To enable the BBC Micro to be so fast, a large amount of the computer circuity was bundled up in to two Uncommitted Logic Arrays (ULAs), of which 10,000 were ordered from Ferranti.
		Initially two versions of the BBC Micro were launched, known as the Model A and the Model B. Both were based around a 2 MHz 6502 processor and featured the same operating system and language, BBC BASIC I (later BBC BASIC II), housed in 32 Kb of ROM.
		The original BBC Micro cost £235 or £335 (for the Model A and Model B, respectively), but this was later increased to £299 and £399.
	www.mcmordie.co.uk /acornhistory/bbchist.shtml (713 words)

	BBC Micro Enhancements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The BBC Micro has composite video output which is easily connected to a modern TV.
		Connecting the BBC to the SCART socket of a TV requires that the signal levels be reduced from 5V down to 0.7V.
		Eventually the level shifter circuitry could be housed inside the BBC micro, in which case the connections are indeed short.
	www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk /Acorn/BBCmicro/BBC_Enhancements.htm (1023 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Acorn BBC model A was the successor of the Acorn Atom and its first name was Acorn Proton.
		The BBC model B was then used almost universally in British schools from its birth into the 90's.
		In 1985, the Acorn BBC Model B+ was released.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=29 (485 words)

	The BBC lives! -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
		BBC floppy diskettes use "single density" compared to "modern" diskettes used on PCs (which are "double" and "high" density).
		BBC Explorer is a drag-and-drop Windows program that can create a new disk image from dragged BBC files or their *.inf files, or extract such files from an exisiting image.
		Downloading on the BBC means loading a file into a certain range of memory, then moving it to another range, usually lower in memory.
	www.nvg.ntnu.no /bbc/faq.php3 (4303 words)

	mb21 - ether.net - Teletext Then and Now - Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A MAJOR breakthrough that could save BBC Television thousands of pounds in equipment costs has been made by BBC TV networks engineer Tim Kennington using a BBC Micro.
		Kennington, 31, has written a program that enables the BBC Micro to be used as a terminal to create pages on the Ceefax service.
		If current tests with the program are successful BBC TV outside broadcast teams will use micros to transmit Ceefax pages direct from live events.
	teletext.mb21.co.uk /timeline/bbcmu0583.shtml (283 words)

	My first computer: The BBC Micro - Desktops - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
		The BBC Micro was first conceived of as a response to the wide public interest aroused by BBC documentary The Mighty Micro about the impending computer revolution.
		In 1981, the BBC Micro models A and B were released and quickly became the basic (perhaps I should say BASIC) fare of schoolchildren up and down the land.
		The BBC B was followed up - somewhat belatedly - in 1985 by the BBC B+ and eventually the BBC Master, which both added extra graphics and extra memory.
	hardware.silicon.com /desktops/0,39024645,39127208,00.htm (1448 words)

	New BBC Micro Adventure Games - About
		Commissioned by the BBC and built by Acorn Computers, the humble BBC Micro came out in 1981 and, thanks to government funding, soon ended up in virtually every school in the UK during the first half of the 80's.
		The BBC was capable of so much more, and a lot of the games had something appealing about them; the programmers seemed more willing to try something new rather than just copy the latest arcade games.
		My original BBC finally packed up a few year back, which was very sad - until I found that you can get several BBC Emulators to run on a PC.
	www.timsellers.net /bbcadventures/about.html (668 words)

	BBC Micro Disk Controllers
		When the BBC Micro models A and B were first released, it was possible to add a disk upgrade to the machine, Mind you, the upgrade cost about £120, so it wasn't a popular upgrade initially - until people got hacked off with a large program taking 20 minutes to load from cassette tape.
		In Acorn's design of the BBC Micro, the floppy disk controller appears in the memory map from andFE80 - andFE9F - however only 3 address lines are made available to the floppy disk controller, and so only 8 locations are uniquely addressable (e.g.
		This was a daughter board which plugged in to the 8271 socket on the BBC motherboard, but this time the daughter board carried a Western Digital 1770 disk controller AND a socket for the displaced 8271 disk controller.
	www.adsb.co.uk /bbc/disk_controllers (1485 words)

	BBC Micro User Guide: Introduction
		Unfortunately, as there are a large number of different kinds of connections, it has not been possible to supply a lead to fit every machine.
		To help matters, throughout the book we have used a second typeface to show what appears on your screen or what is typed in at the keyboard.
		The BBC Microcomputer User Guide was written by John Coll and edited by David Allen for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
	kasoft.freeyellow.com /Central/Kasoft/Typeset/BBC/Intro.html (656 words)

	BBC in MESS page
		The extra 64K of ram in the BBC B+ 128K was just mapped in as 4 banks of sideways ram in bank 0,1,C and D. I guess I should really add some sideways ram to the BBC B driver at some point soon.
		I have made up a detailed report of where exactly the BBC driver for MESS is at, look at the picture at the bottom of this page to understand the colour information.
		I think I am going to have to write a program that turns BBC files back into cassette wave files, it is all a little bit mad but I am having lots of fun getting this one working, I will keep you posted on how it is coming along.
	mamerominfo.retrogames.com /messbbc (1989 words)

	eBay.co.uk - bbc micro, bbc computer, bbc model b, bbc microcomputer items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BBC microcomputer model B - Acorn BBC Micro
		BBC micro : Level 9 : Return to eden, fantastic posters
		BBC microcomputer speech ROM - BBC micro - Free P+P
	search.ebay.co.uk /bbc-micro_W0QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ19 (495 words)

	BBC Micro - information, downloads, news and links about the BBC micro computer
		At one point Britain was the most computer literate country on Earth, mainly due to the vision of the BBC and the skill of Acorn and the creators of the BBC Micro.
		The BBC Micro used BBC BASIC, which is an excellent beginner's programming language.
		Virtually all of the hundreds of games written for the BBC are available for download on the internet.
	www.btinternet.com /~lawrence.edwards/bbccomp/bbc.htm (562 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Systems: Acorn: BBC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BBC Micro Documentation - Includes documentation of the 6502/6510/8500/8502 instruction set, errata for BBC Micro manuals, Acorn application notes, and WD1770 disk controller programming information.
		The BBC Microcomputer System Games Archive - Includes a history of the BBC, advice on how to obtain a BBC, emulator information, interviews with influential people in the Beeb scene, details of unreleased games, a high score table, and a large list of companies, with descriptions of the games each produced.
		Sprow's 8 Bit BBC Mecca - Details of an assortment of hardware and software projects for the BBC micro that you can build or download, along with some commercially available add-ons.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Systems/Acorn/BBC (272 words)

	eBay.co.uk - Games, Bbc, Bbc Micro, 32k Bbc items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		TRIVIAL PURSUIT ON DISK FOR THE BBC MICRO.
		OMEGA ORB ON DISK FOR THE BBC MICRO.
		MICRO POWER MAGIC ON DISK FOR THE BBC MICRO.
	video-games.listings.ebay.co.uk /BBC-Micro_Games_W0QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ50218QQsocmdZListingItemList (386 words)

	Acorn BBC Micro - Catharton Electronica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Because of its BBC-approved status, the Acorn BBC Micro was the computer of choice for British schools and loads of kids brought up in the UK during the 80s would have encountered a BBC Micro at some point.
		The BBC came in a variety of guises including the A, B, B+ and Master series.
		Acorn eventually abandoned the BBC to develop its own next generation machine in the late 80s, the advanced-for-its-time 32-bit Archimedes series.
	www.catharton.com /electronica/viewpage.php?page_id=2 (541 words)

	John Allen's Z88 Link for BBC Micro
		As there are no plans for a 'BBC Link II', an easy to use file transfer link between the BBC micro and a Z88, we've done our own, the result is the listing opposite.
		The other options on the main menu allow you to show a list of BBC files in the current directory and transfer then to the Z88 (the procedure is similar to sending files from the Z88 to the BBC micro), and to enter '*' commands, for example to change the current drive or directory.
		The problem is that bytes in the range &10-&1F on the Z88 were transferred to the BBC micro as bytes in the range &20-&2F so if you sent the file back to the Z88 it's not the same as when it went.
	www.johnallen.com /z88/zlink.html (970 words)

	The BBC lives! -- Emulators
		According to Tom Seddon, this emulator is rather useless due to a number of bugs, and overall slowness (pure C implementation).
		BBC BASIC(Z80) can be downloaded free of charge.
		Because this is not a full BBC micro emulation, but rather an adaption of the BBC BASIC language for other platforms, the performance is much higher than full-fledged emulators when it comes to BASIC power.
	bbc.nvg.org /emulators.php3 (1488 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This was based on a Microvitec Cub monitor from the eighties always it seems, connected up to BBC B Computers in schools and homes.
		The body of the monitor was made from thin sheet aluminium and painted regulation beige.
		Geoff Crammond wrote this motor racing simulation for the BBC Computer and has now gone on to write Grand Prix 1 and 2 for the PC.
	www.btinternet.com /~peter.clements/bbcb/bbcb.htm (420 words)

	BBC Micro info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For many years, the BBC Micro computer, as produced by (the now defunct) Acorn Computers Limited (formerly of Cambridge, U.K.), gave a great deal of pleasure to many people.
		BBC Micro users will have a large number of DFS and ADFS floppy disks, which may contain useful data.
		The BBC Master 128 computer has a few Y2000 problems.
	www.adsb.co.uk /bbc (232 words)

	The BBC Micro quiz -- free game
		The BBC was the product of which computer company?
		The BBC's speech upgrade featured the sampled voice of which BBC newsreader?
		The BBC has 5 16k ROM sockets located beneath the keyboard, what would they have contained as standard on a new BBC B? Question 10:
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=39927&origin= (156 words)

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