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 ...

Think you know a thing or two about the classroom classic BBC Micro? The UK's National Museum of Computing, based on the Bletchley Park estate in Buckinghamshire, is having trouble maintaining 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...