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NL: In 1986 my school had a classroom fitted with a dozen BBC B's and a server with the co-processor. Later that year Acorn dumped the Electrons and I was abl
by the-dude 6y ago
NL:
In 1986 my school had a classroom fitted with a dozen BBC B's and a server with the co-processor.
Later that year Acorn dumped the Electrons and I was able to get a computer for a reasonable price.
Electron User ( was that the name? ) was available at our kiosks.
- flohofwoe 6y agoInterestingly when I researched the Acorn Atom (very simple 6502-based home computer from the early 80's) for an emulator, I found a very active Dutch community which helped me out with some questions I had. But AFAIK the Netherlands seemed to be the only '8-bit Acorn enclave' outside the UK, in other European countries Acorn only became somewhat popular with the Archimedes 3000 which was marketed as an "Amiga killer".
- jacquesm 6y agoI've seen them in Germany, Belgium, France, and those were the only countries I had regular access to at the time besides Poland where I never saw any western machines other than an Atari 520 and the occasional whitebox IBM PC clone.
- jacquesm 6y agoAnd there still is a pretty active BBC Micro/Master/Archimedes user group even today.