Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site west44.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!ukc!west44!gurr From: gurr@west44.UUCP (Dave Gurr) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System Message-ID: <155@west44.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 12:31:37 EST Article-I.D.: west44.155 Posted: Thu Mar 15 12:31:37 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 03:02:52 EST Organization: CS Dept., Westfield College, London Lines: 23 This article is mainly aimed at the American subsribers to net.micro, but anyone is welcome to reply. As you may have noticed, there is something of a British invasion taking place on the American shores in the form of the British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System (I'll call it BBC - apologies to the Swiss), marketed by Acorn Inc. Previous to its launch, the only American reference I had seen to it was in a Byte article (sometime last year I think). Anyway, to get down to the meat of this message: how do you think the BBC micro is going down in the USA? Never mind all the publicity about having exceeded this year's projected turnover in 6 months etc. If enough people seem interested, then I'll post a summary of the replies. PS. In case you're wondering, I have a BBC with single 400K double-sided 80tk disk drive, EPSON RX80 F/T printer, and heaps of software, including the truly wonderful BCPL system (is BCPL for the BBC available over there yet?) {ENGLAND}!ukc!root44!west44!westf!gurr {ENGLAND}!ukc!root44!west44!gurr {ENGLAND}!ukc!lmcl <- by far the fastest, but please ask for it to be forwarded to me.