BBC releases its computer history archive
I was in the UK across much of this time, and I was a person in computer science across all of that time. Somehow, I cannot identify with this as &quot;my&quot; story.<p>I think it says much more about me than the BBC btw. I think this is a fantastic &quot;oral&#x2F;social history&quot; thing to do. Its a slice of time.<p>I think a lot of people (like me) who had access to sufficient mainframe power not to want to tinker at home on a PC didn&#x27;t realize what they meant, for the future of computing! (I spent a brief period building a power supply for the Acorn Atom, which was a 6502 precursor to the BBC micro, and found it sufficiently painful after I managed to get some code working on it, I never really went back. I still have a C60 cassette of the basic code in kansas city standard whistles somewhere).<p>The moment where CeeFax sent code out in the VBI was a huge signal. Oddly, much later on I tried to get some people interested in using the VBI timing to distribute a stratum-1 clock for nTP.