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    or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputer designed and built by Acorn Computers Limited in the 1980s for the Computer Literacy Project of the BBC. Designed...
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    The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or stylized as micro:bit) is an open source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for...
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  • the original version, was shipped on early BBC Micros. BASIC II was used on the Acorn Electron and BBC Micros shipped after 1982, including the Model B...
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  • the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s...
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    was accepted to become the BBC Micro, with it falling to Wilson to develop its operating system and its version of BASIC, BBC BASIC -- at 16K and 16K respectively...
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  • In the BBC Microcomputer System, the Tube is the expansion interface and architecture which allows the BBC Micro to communicate with a second processor...
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    A BBC Micro expansion unit, for the BBC Micro is one of a number of peripherals in a box with the same profile and styling as the main computer. The second...
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  • The Computer Programme (category BBC programme ID same as Wikidata)
    BBC wanted to use their own computer, so the BBC Micro was developed by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, and was featured...
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    the Elk inside Acorn and beyond) was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers Ltd, to provide...
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    the BBC Micro Model B. The Master 128 remained in production until 1993. The Master series featured several improvements over earlier BBC Micro models...
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