In the early 1980s there was growing public awareness that the microcomputer revolution would have a significant effect on everybody’s lives, and there was a brief period in which anything remotely ...

Think you know a thing or two about the classroom classic BBC Micro? The UK's National Museum of Computing, based on the Bletchley Park estate in Buckinghamshire, is having trouble maintaining its ...

After the success of the BBC Micro in the 1980s, the BBC is now back with an ambitious project of giving away microcomputers to 1 million school children in the United Kingdom to help them learn how ...

The BBC had started delivering the first of its Micro Bit programming boards to students, a project which it hopes will help create the next generation of coders and tech entrepreneurs. Up to one ...

The BBC Microcomputer, launched in the early 1980s, holds a special place in computing history. Designed for educational purposes, it introduced a generation to programming and technology. With its ...

A generation of British school children who came of age in the 1980s remember learning simple programming on the BBC Microcomputer, a personal computer distributed by the government broadcaster to ...

The BBC has announced the Micro Bit PC, a mini-computer that will be given to children across Britain as part of an education initiative. One million of the stripped-down machines will be given to ...

The BBC Micro Bit, a tiny programming board aimed at giving children a taste of coding, is now available to everyone to buy. In March, the BBC started distributing a million of the diminutive boards ...

While the BBC Micro Bit was expected to be unveiled in October 2015, months of setbacks prolonged the process. But now, these microcomputers are finally being delivered to one million UK children for ...