Date   : Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:31:11 +0000
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Beeb articles on BBC Online

On 20/03/2008, tim.fardell@... <tim.fardell@...> wrote:
> Surely it's stupid to assert that the BBC Micro was the one and only machine
>  that inspired a generation of computer users? Surely it was the combined
>  effect of all the early home computers, and I would have thought the much
>  more affordable and bigger-selling Spectrum, Dragon or maybe even C64 would
>  have played a bigger role?

The Spectrum is mentioned in one of the articles. I think it focusses
on the Beeb because it's a meeting of the Beeb's creators - and of
course it had a unique position in schools and on TV etc.

-- 
Alex Taylor