Now the chips are down: the BBC Micro

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The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.

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Title Statements

Full title :Now the chips are down : the BBC Micro / Alison Gazzard.

Summary

The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 206 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262334303, 0262334305, 9780262334310, 0262334313
oclc:ocn940501822
LC Classification:QA76.8.B35
Dewey Decimal:004.0941

Hardware and software literacies. The Beeb is born -- Input/output -- Making and playing games. Granny's garden -- Acornsoft and Elite -- Superior software and Repton -- Extending the platform. Telesoftware and the teletext adapter -- The Domesday Project -- The legacy of the BBC Micro.

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BBC (Micro-ordinateur) -- Histoire BBC Microcomputer BBC Microcomputer -- History Computer literacy Computer literacy -- History. -- Great … COMPUTER SCIENCE/History of Computing COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy COMPUTERS -- Computer Science COMPUTERS -- Data Processing COMPUTERS -- Hardware COMPUTERS -- Information Technology COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory COMPUTERS -- Reference Connaissances en informatique -- Histoi… DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Medi… Great Britain History SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies