A BBC Micro expansion unit, for the BBC Micro is one of a number of peripherals in a box with the same profile and styling as the main computer. The second...
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In the BBC Microcomputer System, the Tube is the expansion interface and architecture which allows the BBC Micro to communicate with a second processor...
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The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a family of microcomputers developed and manufactured by Acorn Computers in the early 1980s as part of the...
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Coprocessor (category Central processing unit)
Tube, with Acorn's own products providing such processors in a BBC Micro expansion unit with accompanying memory and interfacing circuitry. Software could...
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original BBC Micro, featuring fewer but larger chips. In terms of expansion ports, the Master 128 retained all of the standard interfaces of the BBC Micro. One...
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internet worldwide. The BBC also developed several computers throughout the 1980s, most notably the BBC Micro (created as part of the BBC Computer Literacy...
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Several expansions were made available to provide many of the capabilities omitted from the BBC Micro. Acorn introduced a general-purpose expansion unit, the...
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Grundy NewBrain (section BBC micro project)
of Teddington and Cambridge, England. A contemporary of the ZX80 and BBC Micro, the NewBrain was mostly used in business settings. It is notable for...
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known for its computer peripherals for the VIC-20 and BBC Micro. Torch produced an expansion unit originally developed by Arfon Microelectronics for the...
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Acorn Archimedes (redirect from BBC Archimedes)
processor" expansions, including a Z80 second processor running the CP/M operating system, a commitment made by Acorn when securing the BBC Micro contract...
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ZX81, ZX Spectrum, and QL computers, Acorn Atom, BBC Micro, Seven S, ABC 80, ABC 800, Compis, MicroBee. "Product & Technology Milestones". Sony Group...
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the IBM PC in 1981, Acorn's tube expansion bus on the BBC Micro also from 1981, IBM's patented and proprietary Micro Channel architecture (MCA) from 1987...
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Acorn Computers (section BBC Micro and the Electron)
later Acorn Archimedes, were highly popular in Britain, while Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the educational computer market during the 1980s. The...
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"Universal Gluon" expansion did eventually come to pass through the availability of a number of third-party expansions for the BBC Micro such as the Cambridge...
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Atom and Acorn System 2/3/4 computers in 1981. Also in that year the BBC Micro was released, initially with provision for floppy disc and Econet interface...
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circular tunnel by the use of a tunnelling shield Tube (BBC Micro), an expansion bus on the BBC Micro computer Cathode-ray tube, a component used in display...
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for the lower-specification Model A, positioned as a competitor to the BBC Micro and Commodore 64, with a Model B system projected to cost £1,200 excluding...
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Steam engine (redirect from Triple-expansion engines)
The world's smallest working "steam engine" was revealed in 2011. The micro-scale engine was developed by two German scientists at the University of...
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much cheaper Sinclair ZX Spectrum finding favour with home users, the BBC Micro conquering the education market and the IBM PC making inroads into becoming...
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Elite (video game) (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games)
Braben and Ian Bell and was originally published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron computers in September 1984. Elite's open-ended game...
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Wilson. Part of this heritage is still visible in the provision of a Tube BBC Micro model in ARMulator. ARMulator is written in C and provides more than just...
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Creative Zen (redirect from Zen Micro)
Accessories for the ZEN Micro include matching color speakers, wireless headsets and a wired remote control. The first 35,000 units shipped worldwide were...
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by a 68451 memory management unit and a 68450 DMA controller. Both VMEbus and a BBC Micro-compatible "1MHz bus" expansion buses were provided, as was a...
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directly into an HDMI port on a television or AV receiver (powered via Micro USB connection to the television itself or an AC adapter), in contrast to...
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TRS-80 (section Model I Expansion Interface)
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer developed by American...
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Workstation – NS32016 (with 6502-based BBC Micro host) BBC Micro 32016 Second Processor - a separate expansion for the BBC Micro providing the NS32016 capabilities...
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the early history of home computers, such as the Acorn Electron and the BBC Micro, also developed by Acorn. Other typical early single-board computers like...
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daisy-chained expansion bus. The system was single-tasking, monolithic and non-reentrant. Versions 0.10 to 1.20 were used on the BBC Micro, version 1.00...
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ZX81 (section BBC Micro bid)
MicroTan are kit computers and are not supplied with a case. The Atari 400 and TRS-80 model I were officially only expandable to 16 KB, but expansion...
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to store the major portions of an Acorn Electron or BBC Micro's state: main, shadow and expansion bus memory, the CPU and the WD1770 floppy drive controller;...
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