@[url=https://atomicpoet.org/users/atomicpoet]Chris Trottier[/url] Archimedes was the successor to the BBC Micro. It’s what said Guardian reading PTA chairs upgraded to. The original BBC Micro was a 32k 6502 based thing built like a tank so that school kids couldn’t break it. Its thing was that it was very easy to plug home made hardware in. It’s kinda the original inspiration for the Raspberry Pi.
Every school had one, or a few if they were well funded, but they were rare outside that environment where most people either got a Spectrum or C64. The BBC Micro, beyond schools, was bought by a VERY specific section of the British middle class.
This whole thing repeated in the late 80s, with the Amiga, Atari ST and Archimedes playing the roles or the C64, Spectrum and BBC Micro respectively.
Sarah Brown
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