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The BBC 'B' (32k memory) light would be the BBC 'A' (16k memory) The Electron was the machine Acorn had already built before they got the BBC contract. Progra
by SixSigma 11y ago
The BBC 'B' (32k memory) light would be the BBC 'A' (16k memory)
The Electron was the machine Acorn had already built before they got the BBC contract.
Programs for the Electron were transmitted via Teletext on BBC before the BBC was around. 12 year old me transcribed them by hand and read the source code to try and learn programming while my BBC was on back order (little knowing it was tokenized!).
My BBC still sits here in the room with me, I still use it occasionally for fun.
- jacquesm 11y ago> The Electron was the machine Acorn had already built before they got the BBC contract. I thought that was the 'Atom'... The electron was from '83, the Atom pre-dates the BBC Micro. And yes, the 16K version of the BBC existed as well, I'd forgotten about that, those were pretty rare though, I've never even seen one (and I've seen 100's of beebs on account of having very close ties with the Dutch distributor and two of the distributors clients). I can probably still wire in a solidisk without reference to the schematics :)
- pja 11y agoYup: The Electron came later & was a cut down BBC Micro. Unfortunately for Acorn, they ramped production right into the early 80s home microcomputer slump & the ensuing financial problems eventually forced the sale of the company to Olivetti.