{"id":657,"date":"2010-05-17T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2010-05-17T15:41:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:41:43","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-bbc-microcomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/657\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-bbc-microcomputer","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The BBC Microcomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/bbc_micro_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/bbc_micro_small.jpg\" alt=\"BBC Microcomputer Ad - 1983\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>IT&#8221;S HERER AHH1!!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This scan of an American <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC_Microcomputer\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Microcomputer<\/a> ad might be of particular interest to our British friends, who may be curious as to how one of the UK&#8217;s most famous early PCs was received in the United States.  The truth is that the BBC Microcomputer is virtually unknown here.  I&#8217;ve never seen one in person, and I&#8217;d never even heard of it until the Internet era.  I suspect US sales of the BBC Microcomputer were limited in part due to the low market footprint of importers like &#8220;Fourth Dimension Systems,&#8221; as seen  in this ad.<\/p>\n<p>I know very little about the BBC Microcomputer (although I&#8217;d love to have one, if anyone wants to send a unit over).  If any readers out there are familiar with the BBC Micro, I&#8217;d be interested to hear some history and trivia about the machine in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Interface Age, November 1983, p.30 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Have you ever owned a British-designed PC?  If so, tell us about it.  If many, tell us your favorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&#8221;S HERER AHH1!! This scan of an American BBC Microcomputer ad might be of particular interest to our British friends, who may be curious as to how one of the UK&#8217;s most famous early PCs was received in the United States. The truth is that the BBC Microcomputer is virtually unknown here. I&#8217;ve never seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}