Date   : Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:04:04 +0000
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Happy New Year for 2006

I belive it was Vector Marketing of Wellingborough.  I have a Welcome
Pack here with an original letter dated 4th November 1982 stapled to
the inside cover about an enquiry from the original owner concerning
a "faulty computer" which had been returned to them but apparently
not received.

There is also a dispatch note for Product Number ANB032 and a couple
of handwritten receipts from Datron Micro Centre of Derby for serial
number 123132.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Turnbull
To:  bbc-micro@...
Sent: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:54:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Happy New Year for 2006

On Jan 1 2006, 17:55, Tim Matthews wrote:
> Wasn't the Beeb officially launched in '82?

According to the article about it in the December 1981 issue of
Personal Computer World, which I have in front of me, it was launched
in November 1981.  I think my local school was one of the ones that got
an early model, at the end of summer '81, IIRC (some sort of DTI
initiative or competition).  I'm fairly sure one of my friends bought
or at least ordered one for Christmas 1981, and certainly the plan was
for plenty of them to be out in advance of the first TV programmes, in
March 1982.  However, I don't think Alison actually got hers in time
for Christmas.  Initial supplies were notoriously erratic.

Bonus points for whoever can remember the name of the fulfillment
agency *originally* used for BBC Micro sales.

-- 
Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York