It also had much nicer graphics. At my first job we used one as colour front end to a PDP 11/03 that was attached to a huge hydrodynamic model- It largest phy

It also had much nicer graphics. At my first job we used one as colour front end to a PDP 11/03 that was attached to a huge hydrodynamic model- It largest physical model in the world at the time and used 1/3 of our entire lab space related to a nuke plant in China. When the Chinese delegation arrived they where stunned by the BBC micro and apparently spent the next weekend scouring the area for BBC micros to take back.