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Now the chips are down : the BBC Micro / Alison Gazzard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gazzard, Alison, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Platform studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- BBC Microcomputer--History.
- BBC Microcomputer.
- Computer literacy--Great Britain--History.
- Computer literacy.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 206 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.
- Contents:
- I Hardware and Software Literacies
- 1 The Beeb Is Born 19
- 2 Input/Output 45
- II Making and Playing Games
- 3 Granny's Garden 71
- 4 Acornsoft and Elite 91
- 5 Superior Software and Repton 107
- III Extending the Platform
- 6 Telesoftware and the Teletext Adapter 123
- 7 The Domesday Project 145
- 8 The Legacy of the BBC Micro 163.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262334303
- 0262334305
- 9780262334310
- 0262334313
- OCLC:
- 940501822
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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