Now the chips are down : the BBC Micro /

The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gazzard, Alison, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2016]
Series:Platform studies.
Subjects:
BBC Microcomputer > History.
Computer literacy > Great Britain > History.
BBC (Micro-ordinateur) > Histoire.
Connaissances en informatique > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
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
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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