Depite unparalled exposure and market saturation, the '''BBC Micro''' never made serious in-roads into the home computing market where it was beaten into third place by the much more affordable [[ZX Spectrum]] and [[Commodore 64]] until the arrival of the [[CPC|CPC 464]] pushed the ageing machine further down the pecking order.
The [[Acorn Electron]], a Spectrum-priced sibling of the BBC Micro, provides essentially the same software environment.
==Hardware==
[[File:BBC_Micro.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Standard BBC Micro]][[File:Acorn BBC Master Series.jpg|thumb|right|Acorn BBC Master 128]][[File:BBCMicro-PCB-layout.jpg|right|thumb|PCB Layout]]
While nine models were eventually produced with the BBC brand, the term '''BBC Micro''' is usually colloquially used to refer to the first six (Model A, B, B+64 and B+128, Master 128, Master Compact), with the subsequent models considered as part of the [[Acorn Archimedes|Archimedes]] series.
===BBC Master===
In 1986, [[Acorn]] followed up with the BBC Master, which offered memory sizes from 128 KB and many other refinements which improved on the 1981 original. At heart it was essentially the same 6502-based BBC architecture, with many of the upgrades that the original design had intentionally made possible (extra ROM software, extra paged RAM, second processors) now included on the circuit board as internal plug-in modules.
==Software==
==Links==
*[[Media:BBC Microcomputer Advanced User Guide.pdf|BBC Micro - Advanced User Guide]]
*[[Media:Mullard SAA5050 datasheet.pdf|Mullard SAA5050 teletext chip datasheet]]
*[[Media:Texas instruments sn76489an.pdf|Texas Instruments SN76489AN sound chip datasheet]]
*[[Media:Intel 8271 FDC datasheet.pdf|Intel 8271 FDC datasheet]]
*[https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/11/reverse-engineering-forgotten-1970s.html Reverse engineering the Intel 8271]
*[https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/ Stardot.org.uk] Acorn computers forum
*[https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/BBCMicros.html Chris's Acorns BBC microcomputers]
*[https://8bs.com/ BBC and Master Computer public domain library]
*[https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/ Complete BBC Micro Games Archive]
*[https://youtu.be/a6r2QRTkqbc 1000 BBC Micro & Acorn Electron game clips]
*[https://youtu.be/T2VfgtTt5So Acorn Computers - Business Promo Video - Circa 1984]
*[https://youtu.be/bWGjEYMrm_0 Histoire, restauration et réparation BBC Micro] [https://youtu.be/kGYo2MOwslA Cette machine m'a bluffé !] by [[Rodrik Studio]]
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