Author: Acorn Computers LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
BBC Microcomputer Service Manual
Author: Acorn Computers LtdThe BBC Microcomputer User Guide
Author: John CollPublisher:
ISBN: 9780563165583
Category : BASIC (Computer program language)
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
The BBC Microcomputer System
Author: Acorn Computers LtdThe BBC Microcomputer System
Author: Acorn Computers LimitedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : BBC Microcomputer
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Advanced User Guide for the BBC Microcomputer
Author: Andrew C. BrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780946827008
Category : BBC Microcomputer
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The BBC Micro Advanced Reference Guide
Author: Bruce SmithPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780003832235
Category : BBC Microcomputer
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The B.B.C. Microcomputer System
Author: British Broadcasting CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The B.B.C. Microcomputer System
Author: British Broadcasting CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Advanced User Guide for the Acorn Electron
Author: Adrian C. DickensPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907876175
Category : Electron Microcomputer
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Now the Chips Are Down
Author: Alison GazzardPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262552027
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses. In 1982, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched its Computer Literacy Project, intended “to introduce interested adults to the world of computers and computing.” The BBC accompanied this initiative with television programs, courses, books, and software—an early experiment in multi-platform education. The BBC, along with Acorn Computers, also introduced the BBC Microcomputer, which would be at the forefront of the campaign. The BBC Micro was designed to meet the needs of users in homes and schools, to demystify computing, and to counter the general pessimism among the media in Britain about technology. In this book, Alison Gazzard looks at the BBC Micro, examining the early capabilities of multi-platform content generation and consumption and the multiple literacies this approach enabled—not only in programming and software creation, but also in accessing information across a range of media, and in “do-it-yourself” computing. She links many of these early developments to current new-media practices. Gazzard looks at games developed for the BBC Micro, including Granny's Garden, an educational game for primary schools, and Elite, the seminal space-trading game. She considers the shift in focus from hardware to peripherals, describing the Teletext Adapter as an early model for software distribution and the Domesday Project (which combined texts, video, and still photographs) as a hypermedia-like experience. Gazzard's account shows the BBC Micro not only as a vehicle for various literacies but also as a user-oriented machine that pushed the boundaries of what could be achieved in order to produce something completely new.