gurr@west44.UUCP (Dave Gurr) (03/15/84)
This article is mainly aimed at the American subsribers to net.micro, but
anyone is welcome to reply.
As you may have noticed, there is something of a British invasion
taking place on the American shores in the form of the British Broadcasting
Corporation Microcomputer System (I'll call it BBC - apologies to the Swiss),
marketed by Acorn Inc. Previous to its launch, the only American reference
I had seen to it was in a Byte article (sometime last year I think).
Anyway, to get down to the meat of this message: how do you think the
BBC micro is going down in the USA? Never mind all the publicity about having
exceeded this year's projected turnover in 6 months etc.
If enough people seem interested, then I'll post a summary of the
replies.
PS. In case you're wondering, I have a BBC with single 400K double-sided 80tk
disk drive, EPSON RX80 F/T printer, and heaps of software, including the truly
wonderful BCPL system (is BCPL for the BBC available over there yet?)
{ENGLAND}!ukc!root44!west44!westf!gurr
{ENGLAND}!ukc!root44!west44!gurr
{ENGLAND}!ukc!lmcl <- by far the fastest, but please ask for it
to be forwarded to me.