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Technology  30 Years of the BBC Micro 208  Posted by timothy
from the still-living-in-the-basement-probably dept. Alioth
writes "The BBC has an article on the BBC Microcomputer,
designed and manufactured by Acorn Computers for the BBC's
Computer Literacy project. It is now 30 years since the first
BBC Micro came out — a machine with a 2 MHz 6502 — remarkably
fast for its day; the Commodore machines at the time only ran at
1MHz. While most U.S. readers will never have heard of the BBC
Micro, the BBC's Computer Literacy project has had a huge impact
worldwide since the ARM (originally meaning 'Acorn Risc
Machine') was designed for the follow-on version of the BBC
Micro, the Archimedes, also sold under the BBC Microcomputer
label by Acorn. The original ARM CPU was specified in just over
800 lines of BBC BASIC. The ARM CPU now outsells all other CPU
architectures put together. The BBC Micro has arguably been the
most influential 8 bit computer the world had