Hackaday

SCSI Emulation Of A Rare Peripheral For The Acorn BBC Micro

Mass storage presents a problem for those involved in the preservation of older computer hardware. While today’s storage devices are cheap and huge by the standards of decades ago their modern ...
ZDNet

Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing

Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge. silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, ...
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Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint

An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.… You've got a shiny ...
Hackaday

The Last Acorn BBC Computer Wasn’t A BBC Micro

For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of 8-bit machines through the middle of the decade was to transfer their range and ...
BBC

The BBC Microcomputer and me, 30 years down the line

The system was built by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. It ran a new programming language, BBC Basic (beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code), and helped bring ...
Hexus

Acorn Computers announces its first smartphone, the Micro C5

Today, historic UK computer brand Acorn announced a 40 th Anniversary release - the Acorn Micro Phone C5. Acorn's success in the public eye began with the BBC Micro in the 1980s, continued with the ...