In the early 1980s there was growing public awareness that the microcomputer revolution would have a significant effect on everybody’s lives, and there was a brief period in which anything remotely ...

The BBC has launched the Computer Literacy Project Archive on its BBC Taster website to give people access to a project it was part of four decades ago. In the 1980s, the broadcaster ran a national ...

The BBC Microcomputer, launched in the early 1980s, holds a special place in computing history. Designed for educational purposes, it introduced a generation to programming and technology. With its ...

After the success of the BBC Micro in the 1980s, the BBC is now back with an ambitious project of giving away microcomputers to 1 million school children in the United Kingdom to help them learn how ...

The BBC has a long history of teaching the world about computers. The broadcaster’s name was proudly displayed on the BBC Micro, and BBC Basic was the programming language developed especially for ...

There is a whole generation of computer scientists, software engineers, coders and hackers who first got into computing due to the home computer revolution of the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Machines ...

A generation of British school children who came of age in the 1980s remember learning simple programming on the BBC Microcomputer, a personal computer distributed by the government broadcaster to ...