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Acorn Electron World reviews Micro Men

26th February 20105th July 2017

Micro Men, a film about Sir Clive, inventor of the Sinclair Spectrum, and Chris Curry, inventor of the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, didn’t immediately

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Acorn speech system – audio sample

25th February 2010

Iv’e finally managed to have a play with the Acorn Speech system on my BBC Model B. Ive had these chips installed for some time,

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A few new machines added

2nd February 2010

Ive picked up the following machines over the last few days. They are Atari 800 BBC Model B with Econet Z80 Co Processor for the

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RetroClinic DualOS for the BBC Master 128k

1st December 200926th April 2020

I installed the “RetroClinic DualOS” for the BBC Master 128k today. The DualOS Master Board from RetroClinic replaces the original 1Mbit ROM on the BBC

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BBC4's Micro Men: an interview and review

9th October 2009

As I dont currenly have time to write my own review of Micro Men, he is abstract and link to the drobe.co.uk article. Ahead of

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Drobe "closes"

24th September 2009

Taken from The Icon Bar. And so farewell to another part of RISC OS; as noted in our forum, longtime RISC OS news and articles

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Steve Furber talk at Acorn World

23rd September 200916th April 2020

The centre for computing history have released the video of Steve Furber’s talk at Acorn Work / Retro Reunited on Sunday 13th September 2009. He

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RetroClinic DataCentre for the BBC Model B, B+, and Master

9th September 200926th September 2021

I so want one of these! I now have one of these in my BBC Master 128! You can read more about this device and

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Retro Reunited – Running Order

9th September 200924th October 2020

As well as all the machines to play on, Ubisoft showing off their latest TMNT game, Retro Gamer magazine’s live feature, competitions and loads more,

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The Centre for Computing history interviews Steve Furber

3rd September 200924th October 2020

This interview with Steve Furber CBE was filmed at Manchester University on 17th August 2009. He talks about his involvement with the Mk14, how he became

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