Acorn Electron World
acornelectron.co.uk
acornelectron.co.uk
A few years ago I set up an emulated bbc econet network using images of my old server disks we hacked in school.
My friend and I got suspended for hacking the network, giving ourselves extra storage (a massive 200k) and remotely changing our computer ID to make it appear that it had been done from the teachers own machine.
It drove him crazy. Sorry Mr Pollard.
We only got caught 'cos one of our friends told a guy who blabbed.
great days.
http://elkulator.acornelectron.co.uk/
Which makes a nice companion to the site linked.
The Electron was the machine Acorn had already built before they got the BBC contract.
Programs for the Electron were transmitted via Teletext on BBC before the BBC was around. 12 year old me transcribed them by hand and read the source code to try and learn programming while my BBC was on back order (little knowing it was tokenized!).
My BBC still sits here in the room with me, I still use it occasionally for fun.
I thought that was the 'Atom'...
The electron was from '83, the Atom pre-dates the BBC Micro.
And yes, the 16K version of the BBC existed as well, I'd forgotten about that, those were pretty rare though, I've never even seen one (and I've seen 100's of beebs on account of having very close ties with the Dutch distributor and two of the distributors clients).
I can probably still wire in a solidisk without reference to the schematics :)