BBC Micro
Widely used in schools across the UK the BBC Micro was a massive success for its Cambridge-based manufacturer Acorn Computers.
Acorn anticipated it would sell 12,000 machines but went on to sell 1.5 million.
Launched in 1981 at a cost of £299, it ran at 2MHz and had up to 128KB of memory.
Lin Jones, project manager at The National Museum of Computing, said the British boom in personal computing during the 1980s, which gave rise to the BBC, Spectrum and Amstrad, had inspired a generation of programmers.
She said: "Today Britain rules the world for computer games programmers and the brains behind it grew up playing games and programming in Basic on these computers."
Acorn went on to produce the Archimedes series of computers and chips developed by its subsidiary ARM are used in many different mobile phone handsets today.
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The BBC Micro has a picture of a Dragon 32 on it. [nt]
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