21 March 2008
The creators of the BBC Micro are getting together in London to celebrate and discuss the innovation of the computer.
Organised by the Computer Conservation Society, the reunion will place at the Science Museum.
The BBC Micro, also known as “the Beeb”, was created by Hermann Hauser and Steve Furber, who worked at Acorn, and former employees of the BBC John Radcliffe and David Allen.
The Beeb was created as a wider initiative to improve computer literacy and was backed up by Television programmes, lessons in schools and a nationwide network of teachers and educators who learned to use the machine.
After the computer was released in 1982 Acorn and the BBC predicted that 12,000 of them would be sold. The actual amount sold totaled more than 1.5 million.
The Science Museum plans to have an exhibition about the BBC Micro and its legacy in 2009.
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