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The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it now-iconic machines such as the ZX Spectrum, which #BBC Micro, and #Commodore64. Those machines would inspire a generation.

The Computers That Made Britain tells the story of 19 of those computers – and what happened behind the scenes.

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The Computers that Made Britain

The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it now-iconic machines such as the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Commodore 64. Those machines would inspire a generation.
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Still have my C=64, still works, still play on it the odd time. Not bad for a 35 year old machine.
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Sounds like a fascinating book! You should sell it at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, where you can see some of these in the flesh (or plastic?)

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I did not, but that's cool. Seems like a no brainer to have your books grace the shelves of TNMOC.
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BBC Micro is such an elegant machine… the Rolls Royce of home computers, I think one reviewer put it at the time. Super-flexible I/O machine with excellent OS and BASIC. So nice to see the spirit live on in the Pi, after the Windoze era of the 90s and 00s.

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