The BBC Micro was the computer that taught Britain to program. Built by Acorn for the BBC’s Computer Literacy Project, it sat in nearly every school in the country — and after hours it gave the world Elite, seeding an industry and starting Acorn down the road to ARM. Its little sibling, the Acorn Electron, carried the same DNA home. This page is the Acorn 8-bit family’s complete corner of the museum.
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The Beeb’s little brother — same family, half the price: Acorn Electron.
The Beeb at full sprint: Stryker’s Run, the run-and-gun that showed what the machine could really do.
The other classroom favourite across the playground: the ZX Spectrum hub.
