Date   : Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:30:49 +0100
From   : aw29009@... (A W)
Subject: Beeb articles on BBC Online

On 3/20/08, 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 Beeb was the National Computer Literacy Project and thus a whole
generation of kids was exposed to them and other generations had to
learn to use or program them. Many of whom stuck with the "scene" to
this day!

Andrew