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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 May 2000.
Re: [PIC] Joystick

Re: [PIC] Joystick

On Wed, 24 May 2000 18:42:43 +0100, Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> posted:
>On Today, Ben Norwood wrote:
>
>: Nah, give me a BBC Micro any day :)
>: 
>: (Now to search round for some pics so I can draw it...)
>
>
From http://www.cybervillage.co.uk/acorn/emulation/bbc/
>
>The Acorn BBC Micro came into being when Acorn won the contract from the
>BBC to produce a home computer that the BBC could use to promote
>technology and computing at home, school and in the work place. Acorn
>won this contract, mainly on the strength of their first Acorn Atom
>computer which had been fairly successful. The BBC models A and B were
>very successful with hundreds of British schools adopting them for what
>were to become classics, such as Granny's Garden, or Pod.

Granny's Garden! *humms theme tune, mimicking the bleepy speaker found in a
beeb micro*

We used to play that when I was ... I dunno... 7 years old or something at
school... hehe.

I never did complete it. Damn that witch!

Kind Regards,
-Martin
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Date: 2000/05/27
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