Posts Tagged ‘BBC Micro’

BBC Microcomputer Celebrates it’s 30th Birthday in a few weeks

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Shortly after the Raspberry Pi was launched, which is hoped in education to be the next BBC Micro, just a reminder in a few weeks the  BBC Micro also Celebrates it’s 30th Birthday.

beebar30

See here Beeb@30

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Salavaged from the tip BBC Micros BBC Masters Spectrums

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

A friend of mine is moving house in a few months, and has decided not to take vintage computers he’s collected over many years, and he was going to scrap them and take them down the skip, unless homes were found. So I collect a car load of vintage stuff

BBC Micros, BBC Masters, Telextet, Prestel and 6502 2nd Processors

BBC Micros, BBC Masters, Telextet, Prestel and 6502 2nd Processors

I collected the following:-

  • 10 BBC Micros ‘Beebs’
  • 4 BBC Masters
  • 3 Cumuna dual 5.25 floppy disk drives (horizontal)
  • 2 Cub Monitors
  • 2 Spectrum+3 128k
  • 2 Cherry Teletext keyboards
  • Teletext Adaptor
  • Prestel Adaptor
  • 6502 Second Processor
Teletext, Prestel and Second Processor for BBC Micro

Teletext, Prestel and Second Processor for BBC Micro

Prestel Adaptor

Prestel Adaptor

6502 Second Processor

6502 Second Processor

Teletext Adaptor

Teletext Adaptor

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