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1. The best BASIC language - very powerful
2. About 50 million add-ons including ROMS, Teletext Adaptors and Music Cards.
Oh, and the loading noise from cassette was the most entertaining as well!
2. About 50 million add-ons including ROMS, Teletext Adaptors and Music Cards.
Oh, and the loading noise from cassette was the most entertaining as well!
The BBC Micro was originally devised to be used for educational purposes and to be used as a workhorse for homecomputing. It ended up being used in schools, but, I would think, 80% for gaming and %20 for education.
I remember playing 'cargo' a maths game on one at school and then using it to play arcade games. We didn't have much time with them, mind you, as the teachers all knew what we were mainly using them for!
They were good days, but the BBC had lots of competition from early PCs like the 8086 based behemoths. At home people tended to go for the Commodore 64 or Sinclair Spectrum. I believe that some are still used in primary schools today, although the government are keen for schools to get PCs so they can be on the internet.
I remember playing 'cargo' a maths game on one at school and then using it to play arcade games. We didn't have much time with them, mind you, as the teachers all knew what we were mainly using them for!
They were good days, but the BBC had lots of competition from early PCs like the 8086 based behemoths. At home people tended to go for the Commodore 64 or Sinclair Spectrum. I believe that some are still used in primary schools today, although the government are keen for schools to get PCs so they can be on the internet.
The BEEB might be what you call a sloppy piece of old tecnology, its beautys are still miss under stood by lots of people.
First of all it was a revolution in computing, with a programmable language rather like Q Basic. It allowed you to create games, puzzles, messages and any thing else that you could think of.
Secondly its basic word writing program, and basic spreadsheet which allowed businesses to compute sums quicker and write messages quicker then print them.
Thirdly the games on this computer rock, my family has two of them, even though they came from my dad's work ages ago, the timeless classic games like Mr. Wimpy and Shootout made this a computer to be proud of.
Lastly if it hadn't been invented, what type of computer would we have now eh?
First of all it was a revolution in computing, with a programmable language rather like Q Basic. It allowed you to create games, puzzles, messages and any thing else that you could think of.
Secondly its basic word writing program, and basic spreadsheet which allowed businesses to compute sums quicker and write messages quicker then print them.
Thirdly the games on this computer rock, my family has two of them, even though they came from my dad's work ages ago, the timeless classic games like Mr. Wimpy and Shootout made this a computer to be proud of.
Lastly if it hadn't been invented, what type of computer would we have now eh?