Acorn designed an early home computer for the BBC in the 1981. The graphical display was assisted by this semi-custom integrated circuit designed by a research team in the Computer Laboratory at the ...

BBC at school, Electron at home, arguments with Spectrum owners on the way home... This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are ...

Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge. silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, ...

[Adrian] comments that the BBC Master 128 is a rare 8-bit computer, and we agree — we couldn’t remember hearing about that particular machine, although the BBC series is quite familiar. The machine ...

Mass storage presents a problem for those involved in the preservation of older computer hardware. While today’s storage devices are cheap and huge by the standards of decades ago their modern ...

Playing Elite, the iconic space simulation game, on a BBC Micro Model B on a friend’s personal computer was one of my first major gaming experiences. Now, the computer is celebrating its 39th birthday ...

The BBC has today announced the release of its complete computer history archive providing those interested with a slice of computing history which is now available to the public for their viewing ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The original ARM operating system RISC OS has gone open source. The OS itself was originally developed by Acorn ...