The BBC Microcomputer System (or BBC Micro) was an innovative machine back in the early 1980’s. One feature that impressed reviewers was a “tube” interface that allowed the machine to become an I/O ...

Playing Elite, the iconic space simulation game, on a BBC Micro Model B on a friend’s personal computer was one of my first major gaming experiences. Now, the computer is celebrating its 39th birthday ...

As part of its 10th birthday celebrations, the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in the UK set eight computing machines spanning 80 years against each other in a race to find numbers in a ...

If you are of a certain age and nationality, you’ll remember the BBC Micro or Beeb, a computer produced by Acorn for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, an effort by British Broadcasting Corporation to ...

The BBC has just shared another video from its archives, this one showing a report about computer addicts from way back in 1983, when computers were just starting to find their way into the workplace ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link In 2012 the BBC decided to produce a computer chip that would teach children how to code. But now, almost four years after the decision to build ...

The BBC has today announced the release of its complete computer history archive providing those interested with a slice of computing history which is now available to the public for their viewing ...

The BBC has launched the Computer Literacy Project Archive on its BBC Taster website to give people access to a project it was part of four decades ago. In the 1980s, the broadcaster ran a national ...

For a million kids in the United Kingdom, a version of Christmas came early this year. That is, if your version of Christmas includes a Micro: bit computer and the promise of a tech savvy future. On ...