Computer museum seeks BBC Micro fixers

by benjamta on 6/29/2015, 12:01 PM with 9 comments
  • by batou on 6/29/2015, 5:18 PM

    I used to fix these all the time. UK schools were kicking them out by the skip load in the mid 1990s. I was there snagging them before they were collected. I had 30 BBC Bs and 12 Master machines at one point and a 1.5m tall pile of cumana disk drives.

    Managed to shift them all on yahoo auctions and ebay between 1998-2001 making a small fortune.

    However I really couldn't be bothered with it all today. Found something much smaller and easier to fix and post!

  • by mpclark on 6/29/2015, 7:53 PM

    "Has about 80 BBC Micro computers... the majority form part of an interactive exhibit that recreates a 1980s classroom"

    IME you only need one BBC Micro to recreate an 80s classroom.

    At my school circa '82-'85 we had a beeb, a PET and two (different) Research Machines boxes that ran CP/M. That was all for the whole school, and with it we somehow managed to produce a remarkable portion of the UK's games programming talent.

    I think I'd better tie an onion to my belt now...

  • by jdub on 6/29/2015, 5:14 PM

      *SPEECH
  *SAY I WISH I STILL HAD A BBC MICRO

  • by forinti on 6/29/2015, 7:51 PM

    Where's that bloke from those Acorn User "You break 'em, we mend them" ads?