BBC Micro

Yet Another BBC Micro: Retro Restoration

In the town I live, there is a small auction house which every week puts up their list of items…

7 months ago

More BBC Micro Repairs

Last weekend I started the first of a four-part course teaching children to program on the BBC Micro. Of course,…

8 months ago

BBC Micro: Restoration part 3

In my previous post, I thought I had both BBCs fully working and almost complete. I cleaned the inside of…

9 months ago

Acorn ANF03 Data Recorder: Retro Restoration

For BBC Micro owners in the 1980s, a disk drive and DFS upgrade was often financially out of reach, sometimes…

9 months ago

BBC Micro: Restoration part 2

Following on from my previous BBC Micro restoration post, I figured I should take a look at BBC Micro #2.…

10 months ago

Teletext on a BBC computer in 2024

Before the Internet, if we wanted to read up-to-the-minute news or weather, we had Teletext. It is a low-bandwidth text…

10 months ago

BBC Micro: Restoration part 1

In a previous post, I showed the two BBC Micro computers I had acquired. I decided to work on the…

11 months ago

BBC Micros: Pre-restoration discovery

In 2024 I'm going to be setting up a small class to teach local children how to program the same…

11 months ago

Valiant Turtle: Retro Restoration Part 2

In my previous post about the restoration of the Valiant Turtle, I managed to get it powered up, but the…

12 months ago

Valiant Turtle: Retro Restoration Part 1

Back in the 1980s, many schools in the UK had BBC Micro computers as part of the BBC's computer literacy…

12 months ago