12 03 81: the BBC goes commercial. This week we revisit some highlights from the life of the microcomputer - as personal computers were called in the days before PC - in the UK
12 March 1981 A whole generation of British schoolchildren grew up learning about computers, thanks to the BBC. The excitement of the microcomputer at the beginning of the 1980s was such that the...
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