Now the chips are down : the BBC Micro / Alison Gazzard.
Material type: TextSeries: Platform studiesPublisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 206 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780262334303
- 0262334305
- 9780262334310
- 0262334313
- BBC Microcomputer -- History
- Computer literacy -- Great Britain -- History
- COMPUTERS -- Computer Literacy
- COMPUTERS -- Computer Science
- COMPUTERS -- Data Processing
- COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- General
- COMPUTERS -- Information Technology
- COMPUTERS -- Machine Theory
- COMPUTERS -- Reference
- BBC Microcomputer
- Computer literacy
- Great Britain
- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History
- COMPUTER SCIENCE/History of Computing
- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
- 004.0941 23
- QA76.8.B35 G39 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Print version record.
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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