BBC Micro Computer Inspection | Nostalgia Nerd

The BBC Micro, emerged in December 1981 as a collaboration between Acorn and the BBC to produce Micro's for Schools and feature in the BBC's television programme "Making the Most of your Micro". Here I take a look at my BBC Micro model B.

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[mpsmith]

I ended up buying this off the video maker. Not long after I got it, it emitted the magic smoke. But it was repaired and is still working.

[c]

Unique pronunciation of the letter B. Nice to see it though, reminds me of primary school.

[ComputerHistoryArchivesProject]

Nice vintage technology! We don't see too many of these in the U.S. Thanks for the informative talk.

[Retro_Sorcerer]

We still had these in our school, back in 1998.

[JacGoudsmit]

You're showing the GORGEOUS BBC computer that I ALWAYS WANTED TO HAVE on a puny little monochrome monitor that's not even adjusted to show the entire picture? I demand a Do Over! :-)

[boblowes]

Bibba See? I've always said Bee Bee See.

[BigHilm]

We had one of these bad boys in primary school. if we were good we were allowed to play Mr Doo at break times.

[Loganberrybunny]

Fabulous; thanks! The Model B was up to £399 by the time I was old enough to want one -- too much for my parents! I got my revenge, though: picked up a Model B+ (the one with 64K RAM) in 1996 for £15. With a Watford Electronics (RIP) double floppy drive that weighs about six tons. Still have it, still love it.

[macnerd]

I Just bought one for my Retro TV area can't wait to recap it and set it up.

[wesmatron]

My fave Micro. So tactile. So good to work on

[Inaflap]

I'd say the BBC micro was more defined by its BASIC. Elite looked amazing on the Beeb in late 1984, and I even considered buying a model B to play it, but it still cost £400... and a disk drive... really necessary on a 32K RAM system was a heap more money. For gaming the Spectrum had many more fun titles available, and the C64 had a lot more to offer for half the money of the Beeb. Both got Elite soon afterwards too.

[dreamkatcha]

The BibbySee was a fantastic machine of course, but my heart was betrothed to the Omygar and the Speeektrom. :|

[derekthesec]

Had the BBC Microcomputer in my secondary school in the 1980s. There were computer clubs after school.

[unlokia]

B.

B.

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No baby, NO BIBBY, see?

[Sinn]

Wow...that is impressive! Too think, I was playing the Nes and Sega Master System at the time. I would have loved to play something with actual teeth back then. I love the cases on these machines. They were so striking with colored keys and sleek designs. It was a far cry from our everything was either eggshell white or that God awful brown that our computers came in. We considered an all black computer as something truly high tech even though the color of the case is meaningless. I am learning so much about European micros from this channel it's fastly becoming my favorite YouTube channel!

[DazDaz]

I recently picked one up for a restore project and now my main regret is no longer having any of the disks I used to have that had all the programs I wrote back in the mid 80s.

[MattHayesVinyl]

The BBC was wonderful to program with. It's how I first got started in programming at age 11. I remember making a space shooting game, a horse racing game, and an email system. The latter of which was banned at my school after I deployed it on the network and people started sending each other abusive messages. It was primitive but worked well, particularly as this in the early 90's before email was commonplace. I also did some programming on the Speccy as the two versions of BASIC were very similar. Some slight syntax differences but not much else. The BBC could also be networked, something one of my schools did although it could lead to unintended consequences if any user loaded an admin tool such as *VIEW where you could, quite literally, see another person's screen.

[deimosk]

AFAIK this machine had pretty good graphic qualities.

[Octamed]

Oh man. I had a whole network of these when a local school was throwing them out. Then *I* had to throw them out when I moved state! This was before anyone gave a crap about old machines and 'retro' wasn't a word yet. I had loads of old machines I wish I could get back.

[MrMalky]

i remember these from school back in the day we got like 15 mins computer time, i remember playing table moutain and the wizard of oz.