Date : Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:30:17 -0000
From : tim.matthews@... (Tim Matthews)
Subject: Beeb articles on BBC Online
Darren Waters who wrote the piece today is writing a piece for tomorrow
based on his interviews with Steve Furber, Herrmann Hauser etc, plus
people from the BBC side.
Should be a Good Friday!
he also told me:
quote.
There were lots of Acorn machines on show - it was brilliant!!!
There will be an Acorn exhibition at the Science Museum in 2009.
Hauser told me this great story about showing their OS to Bill Gates
when he came to visit - And how he knew nothing about then networking!!!
Sophie was there - great stories from her about building the prototype
while the Charles and Di wedding was on!! And about how the machine
existed only in her head when Hauser promised to show the BBC something.
There were about three Atoms, three Electrons, a few Model Bs, some
Masters and an Archimedes.
They also had the secondary CPU unit - which I had never seen before
There were loads of old manuals - which brought back a lot of memories.
unquote.
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From: bbc-micro-bounces+tim.matthews=bbc.co.uk@...
[mailto:bbc-micro-bounces+tim.matthews=bbc.co.uk@...] On
Behalf Of A W
Sent: 20 March 2008 16:31
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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
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