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Re: BBC / Acorn newsgroups
- Subject: Re: BBC / Acorn newsgroups
- From: RichardK-PB <atari@NOSPAMbtconnect.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:40:46 +0000
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Exegete wrote:
Jeff Thomas wrote:
Beeb was one of the crumbliest computers ever made!
It never lasted as long as Apple II range did!
Troll
Inaccurate troll, too.
If you cover their timespan... the BBC lasted almost as long. The Acorn
Atom of 1979/80, the BBC Model B from '81 (82 deliveries, really) to
'86, and the BBC Master... which was finally put to sleep in 1995 I
believe, though 1993 is a more common cut-off point there were still
units in circulation.
And that's just the BBC 'family' of computers.
So, BBC (the Atom is functionally very similar) - '79 to '95.
Apple ][ - '77 to '93.
Richard
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