BBC at school, Electron at home, arguments with Spectrum owners on the way home... This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are ...

Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge. silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, ...

Playing Elite, the iconic space simulation game, on a BBC Micro Model B on a friend’s personal computer was one of my first major gaming experiences. Now, the computer is celebrating its 39th birthday ...

Why I Love is a series of guest editorials on GamesIndustry.biz intended to showcase the ways in which game developers appreciate each other's work. This installment was contributed by Philip and ...

[Adrian] comments that the BBC Master 128 is a rare 8-bit computer, and we agree — we couldn’t remember hearing about that particular machine, although the BBC series is quite familiar. The machine ...

The BBC plans to give a million tiny computers away to 11-year old students at UK schools this fall. The corporation announced the plan earlier this year, and now the BBC has unveiled the final design ...

The BBC has today announced the release of its complete computer history archive providing those interested with a slice of computing history which is now available to the public for their viewing ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The original ARM operating system RISC OS has gone open source. The OS itself was originally developed by Acorn ...

Acorn, the British computer company that dominated the market in the late '70s has been revived, once again. This time out, the outfit is pushing its own smartphone, the Acorn Micro Phone C5, which ...

The aims echo the BBC's Computer Literacy Project, which launched in 1979, contributing to the UK's home computing boom of the 1980s. That initiative produced a series of programmes to educate people ...

A new educational foundation hopes to introduce children worldwide to coding, using a tiny single-board computer that has changed the way coding is taught in schools across the U.K. You may have ...