Wow BBC mirco seems to come up whenever people from UK of certain age are recalling how they got into computers. Such Impact!
How did BBC end up involved in such a project?
Also, thanks for reading it.
How did BBC end up involved in such a project?
Also, thanks for reading it.
Specifically here the BBC Computer Literacy Project ended up creating a line of home computers, and direct government funding put them in (I think literally) every school.
I have fond memories of playing "Granny's Garden", and other games during school hours, and some kind of political simulation where you had to manipulate taxes and get voted into power for a second term to win - I can't remember the name of that game though.
At the time children in the UK would be significantly more likely to own the C64, or the ZX Spectrum - the latter of which was by far the most popular computer at that time.
I never knew anybody who owned their own BBC, but numerous friends had the other computers (even weird machines like the Jupiter Ace).
Like many people at that time I learned to program in BASIC, by reading the instruction book(s) that came with the Spectrum, then graduating to Z80 assembly language - used mostly to remove anti-copying protection, and gain infinite lives on games - before moving on to PCs a good while later.