Leaving school in 84 ,,,, this make he feel so old !!
@robbyxp1
3 жыл бұрын
It was the best all round machine of the mid 80s. Fast, great basic, built in assembler, all the ports you needed, lots of software and a nice keyboard. This machine launched a lot of people careers, including mine.
@minuslr
3 жыл бұрын
My dad brought a beeb home from work in 82, the year I left school. We had no computers at school until I left but due to having a UK101 (also 6502) at home from about the age of 13 I passed a computer studies O level at 15. I still have the study book!
@SeamusMcNeil
3 жыл бұрын
My first ever computer was the BBC Beeb with a whopping 32k of memory. Was a grand machine for it's day despite the high price tag. Cheers...Jim
@Pugwash.
3 жыл бұрын
The best book I bought for my BBC B was "Advanced Graphics with the BBC Model B Microcomputer" by Ian O. Angell & Brian J. Jones. I hunted it down in a Heffers in Cambridge in about 1986. We had a BBC B at home from about 1983!
@delmonti
3 жыл бұрын
...lovely machine, started my IT career at a local College looking after their econet system, about 60+ machines at two sites, saw the introduction of the Master (incl. the Master Compact) into the fold. Still rate BBC Basic as one of THE best implementations of the language available.
@owenrichards1418
3 жыл бұрын
We had one of these at work but we were on the Macintosh 512 and were only allowed to play Elite on the Beeb Micro! It's nice to see this as an alternative to a technical hardware review.
@paupaupaupaupau
2 ай бұрын
The book is $400 on eBay!
@patricklepoutre
3 жыл бұрын
French here, one of the rare that used this lovely BBC micro in the 80's. Saying that machine was sitting between Apple 2 and c64 is okay hardwarewise but bbc basic was quite better, easier and faster. User manual was soooo brilliant. England was (is?) quite ahead for software. Maybe the only machine with a faster basic at that time was DAI computer (semi compiled) but it was a rare and expensive Belgian computer.
@WiFiSheep
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Patrick, Yes I quite agree about BBC BASIC being far superior, and having used C64 CMS BASIC on the modern 'TheC64' clone machine I was amazed just how bad it really was / still is! But saying that in the video would no doubt upset some people or whom might take it as a attack on there hardware.... The C64 was better in other areas as we all know! Interesting you mention the BBC Micros use in France, Acorn dose seem to have quite a following there, which ive always found surprising, considering French technology was seen to be way ahead of Britain though the post war years into the 90's. You also had much better broadband then we did for over 10 years! Anyway...Thanks for sharing your memories and for subscribing!
@patricklepoutre
3 жыл бұрын
@@WiFiSheep yes included basic was a key point at those times. Amstrad did take most of it in their ugly CPC, still well thought out. French computers in the 80's were not that great. France government were still using a "choose one champion" strategy. That works fine for airbus, dassault and TGV but bad for an emerging new product. When chosen by UK education, Acorn was like a startup. France did choose Thomson, an established company. If I can use English so well, this is partly because of the time reading the monthly "bbc micro" magazine, so much a joy when I was receiving the new issue
@clauscederberg2158
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, the BBC Basic is really good, and the inline Assembler makes it really easy to make programs with a mix of Basic and Assembler. Actually I'm almost finished with a Connect 4 game on my Beeb using Assembler for the evaluation function and Basic for the rest.
@martynlewis5901
3 жыл бұрын
The U.K. mid to late 80’s early 90’s educational system was very much a sleep at the wheel regarding teaching programming with the BBC. My school had a room with a few of them in it but any coding was done back at home in the bedroom. Why would we want to teach kids to code? There’s no future in that! 😆
@TheRealSasquatch
3 жыл бұрын
I remember Frak! fondly.
@badgerboy4448
3 жыл бұрын
Wow what happened to Labours education, education, education. I left high school in 2002 and they had 3 IT rooms full of PC's with windows 98. And some more in the library. At primary school we just had a couple of apple computers. Still it didn't hold you back 👍
@WiFiSheep
3 жыл бұрын
Well to be honest it kind of did! I found the only surviving programming book in the school library aged about 9 or 10 which taught the basics of programming BBC Micros in BASIC, and it was totally amazing to me as a child. But it was not formally taught, no teacher knew anything about it.... And as you know it was all about Microsoft Office (or Works) as we had a fleet of 286 - 386 PCs with Windows 3.1 in later years of the 90's along side the Beebs. Amazing you had Apples Im guessing Macintoshs ? LCs , PLUS or 630s?
@badgerboy4448
3 жыл бұрын
@@WiFiSheep I'm not to sure what the apples where. I never got to go on them but I remember people playing lemmings. My teacher in year 6 did give me a old spectrum 128k +2 which I still have. And I later got a Compaq 286 which I used to play around with Qbasic but I never really got into programming. I just enjoy watching videos like yours and pretend I know what your doing 🤣
@WiFiSheep
3 жыл бұрын
Aww thanks very much! TBH I don't really know what i'm doing!! So that makes two of us! LOL
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