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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
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Posted: Thu Mar 15 12:31:37 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 03:02:52 EST
Organization: CS Dept., Westfield College, London
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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?)

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