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Archive for the ‘BBC Micro B’ Category

BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/13

I am publishing this in order of the Twitter bot Social bots appearing, though I found this one later than the Apple ][ equivalent:

[Wayback/Archive] 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator which is a GitHub repository with full source code.

The odd thing is that I bumped into it while performing a [Wayback/Archive] bot that reads unicode – Twitter Search / Twitter (I was looking for a bot responding to fancy Unicode in account names and messages that makes using Twitter for visually impaired a pain to use wich I covered in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y).

It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:

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Posted in 6502, 6502 Assembly, Assembly Language, BASIC, BBC Micro B, Development, History, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, TwitterBot | Leave a Comment »

Favourite Shortcut Key? (Soundcheck Question) – Computerphile – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/20

Still a cool video. Many shortcuts for various operating systems and machines, including BBC B, Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

–jeroen

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Posted in *nix, 6502, Apple, BBC Micro B, History, Linux, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Computing History – The UK Computer Museum – Cambridge

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/19

On my places to visit:

The Centre for Computing History is a computer museum based in Cambridge, UK. With a collection of vintage computers and game consoles, many of the exhibits are hands on and interactive.

[WayBack] Computing History – The UK Computer Museum – Cambridge.

When I bumped into it, this was their collection size, ranging from the 1960s until recent history:

Archive Statistics :

  • Computers = 993
  • Peripherals = 1446
  • Mobile Devices = 31
  • Game Consoles = 213
  • Video Games = 10259
  • Software Packages = 2605
  • Books = 2045
  • Manuals = 4106
  • Magazines = 9057

Looking at their archived brands (having [WayBack] MITS – Altair and [WayBack] Raspberry Pi in the collection) is such a joy.

Archiving the older parts is a tough job, as they stem from way before the web era, so information has been lost, parts are hard to source, a lot of hardware got thrown away or is hard to find at all, people have died. More on that at [WayBack] About – Computing History.

Without a physical visit, you can find what they have at [WayBack] Search Our Archive – Computing History.

The video below on their archive is impressive.

–jeroen

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Posted in 6502, 68k, Apple I, BBC Micro B, BBS, C64, Commodore, CP/M, dial-up modems, FidoNet, History, IBM SAA CUA, PowerPC, Tesseract, VIC-20, Z80 | Leave a Comment »