Mass storage presents a problem for those involved in the preservation of older computer hardware. While today’s storage devices are cheap and huge by the standards of decades ago their modern ...

Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge. silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, ...

The tech industry is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the BBC Microcomputer. The system was built by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. It ran a new programming ...

For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of 8-bit machines through the middle of the decade was to transfer their range and ...

The system was built by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. It ran a new programming language, BBC Basic (beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code), and helped bring ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. But for those in the UK, owning an Apple II was something of a pipe dream. Its graphics system, designed specifically for NTSC monitors, wouldn't work ...

An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.… You've got a shiny ...