Computer Architect, #ArmServers @Google | Previously @Red Hat, @NUVIA | Author of several Linux programming books
The BBC Micro turned 40 this week and I turn 40 next week. If you were a kid in the UK in the 1980s, you grew up with the beeb. It was the platform you first learned to program on, and in my case led to a life long love of Acorn and Arm. 🖥️ Matt Godbolt has a great emulator available for anyone who doesn’t have an original: https://lnkd.in/ekkHf7Dz
Noel Hurley
2y
That is a BBC Master, not a BBC Micro! I had a BBC Micro model A and you could buy a kit to convert it to a Micro B (16kB of extra memory and more ports), which involved getting your soldering iron out!
The emulator lets you play in full virtual BBC Micro glory! 3d full emulation of a beeb...in a browser! Technology has come along in 40 short years, eh? :)
my first computer was the Commodore PET 3032, in 1977. what on earth a Boarding school in Wolverhampton (Birchfield School https://www.birchfieldschool.co.uk/school-history/) was doing with a Commodore PET 3032 in 1977 i will never know, but it basically shaped the rest of my life. Stonyhurst College (https://www.stonyhurst.ac.uk/) - in 1983 - also had a ZX Spectrum and a couple of BBC Micros (the originals), one of which was in the Grammar Common Room and the other was in the Physics Lab on a trolley, connected to an IO Expansion kit specially designed for schools: ADCs, DACs, an Op-Amp and GPIO.
David Aarons
2y
The BBC B set us all up to change the world. Even now the lessons learnt programming the BBC micro is good grounding to.make the micro controllers of today dance!!
Being forced to use the BBC at school certainly didn’t make me fall in love with the machine (It was an Amiga 500 which stole my heart), but nostalgia value for the BBC is through the roof 😍
I owned the launch Model B. I was ahead of my University who took another few years to deploy in the Undergraduate Physics Lab.
Mike Mallett
2y
I still have a B and Master somewhere so better check if they work. Did you have the ARM co pro?
Computer Architect, #ArmServers @Google | Previously @Red Hat, @NUVIA | Author of several Linux programming books
2yBonus points for noting which model I am holding