We still had these in our school, back in 1998.

We had one of these bad boys in primary school. if we were good we were allowed to play Mr Doo at break times.

I ended up buying this off the video maker. Not long after I got it, it emitted the magic smoke. But it was repaired and is still working.

You're showing the GORGEOUS BBC computer that I ALWAYS WANTED TO HAVE on a puny little monochrome monitor that's not even adjusted to show the entire picture? I demand a Do Over! :-)

I'd say the BBC micro was more defined by its BASIC. Elite looked amazing on the Beeb in late 1984, and I even considered buying a model B to play it, but it still cost £400... and a disk drive... really necessary on a 32K RAM system was a heap more money. For gaming the Spectrum had many more fun titles available, and the C64 had a lot more to offer for half the money of the Beeb. Both got Elite soon afterwards too.

Bibba See? I've always said Bee Bee See.

Fabulous; thanks! The Model B was up to £399 by the time I was old enough to want one -- too much for my parents! I got my revenge, though: picked up a Model B+ (the one with 64K RAM) in 1996 for £15. With a Watford Electronics (RIP) double floppy drive that weighs about six tons. Still have it, still love it.

Had the BBC Microcomputer in my secondary school in the 1980s. There were computer clubs after school.

I Just bought one for my Retro TV area can't wait to recap it and set it up.

Nice vintage technology! We don't see too many of these in the U.S. Thanks for the informative talk.

My fave Micro. So tactile. So good to work on

The BibbySee was a fantastic machine of course, but my heart was betrothed to the Omygar and the Speeektrom. :|

My first computer!

I recently picked one up for a restore project and now my main regret is no longer having any of the disks I used to have that had all the programs I wrote back in the mid 80s.

AFAIK this machine had pretty good graphic qualities.

Ahhhhhhhhh the time I used to lay on my sofa reading some computer magazines and dreaming of owning a home computer (as they were called back then). Of course not necessarily a BBC, which I knew but simply wasn't quite as popular as in the UK, but anyway... In those days, technology had the power to make you dream of.... itself.

The BBC was wonderful to program with. It's how I first got started in programming at age 11. I remember making a space shooting game, a horse racing game, and an email system. The latter of which was banned at my school after I deployed it on the network and people started sending each other abusive messages. It was primitive but worked well, particularly as this in the early 90's before email was commonplace. I also did some programming on the Speccy as the two versions of BASIC were very similar. Some slight syntax differences but not much else. The BBC could also be networked, something one of my schools did although it could lead to unintended consequences if any user loaded an admin tool such as *VIEW where you could, quite literally, see another person's screen.

i remember these from school back in the day we got like 15 mins computer time, i remember playing table moutain and the wizard of oz.

B. B. C. No baby, NO BIBBY, see?

Wow...that is impressive! Too think, I was playing the Nes and Sega Master System at the time. I would have loved to play something with actual teeth back then. I love the cases on these machines. They were so striking with colored keys and sleek designs. It was a far cry from our everything was either eggshell white or that God awful brown that our computers came in. We considered an all black computer as something truly high tech even though the color of the case is meaningless. I am learning so much about European micros from this channel it's fastly becoming my favorite KZfaq channel!

Plain as Bulgarian pin-up. Brilliant.

I still have mine I bought from 3D computers when it was launched

Ah, the boot up sound. I spent some time working at an Acorn service centre. When you heard those beeps you knew you had fixed it :)

Unique pronunciation of the letter B. Nice to see it though, reminds me of primary school.

Oh man. I had a whole network of these when a local school was throwing them out. Then *I* had to throw them out when I moved state! This was before anyone gave a crap about old machines and 'retro' wasn't a word yet. I had loads of old machines I wish I could get back.

Yeah my school had Masters too! Can't remember the name of that driving game I used to play a LOT when I was allowed to go on it.

which model of this had a weird ram expander on the side complete with little lever??

on Lander on risc os did it have sound does any1 know? thanks. where can i download Lander with sound? thanks.

I adored the BBC Micro when I was a kid. Of course, just about every school in the country seemed to have them and I was so jealous when my best friend at the time got one. I remember we had a falling out one time when it was meant to be turn next at Hopper (Frogger!) but he tried to take an extra turn for himself. lol I got quite proficient at programming on the BBC, starting at around age 11 and all the way up until I was 15 or 16. I remember I made an early rudimentary email program (this would have been in around 1993 or 94) that people at school used... until it got banned by the IT teacher because kids were abusing it and sending each other crude messages. I also made a weird horse racing/betting game, a 1 on 1 spaceship game (think of Galaga except you only ever faced one opponent), and various other things. I used to have a print out of the email software. Kept it for years. It was printed on that old computer paper with the perforated edges. It was about 2 inches thick because the program was so long.

I remember my primary school had only about two or three of these machines when I started there in 1983. Even when I left I don't think there were more than five. I don't remember if by 1990 they had any BBC Masters. They used to be wheeled round to different classrooms and you couldn't get to go on one on your own, you almost always had to be in pairs. There was this one teacher who would sit us all down around near the machine (crossed legged) and we would play an adventure game as one big group, with the teacher asking us what to do next. I'm sure one game had involved a Witch with a crooked nose her obligatory broomstick, but I don't recall what the game was called....

why bibibsee ? and not bebesee if you get me lol

Watching you playing Elite by mashing the keyboard before picking up the manual, I'm thinking, "can I hit you?"

Elite: Dangerous looks a little different than the original version. They've done a couple of things with the graphics. Anyway, I'd love to get hold of some of those nifty old computers from the UK but I don't imagine it would be cheap to ship them across the pond. Nice to learn a bit about them though!

Shift break for the floppy drive, shift ‘n’ break to log onto econet... and you were threatened with death if you turned the server key off, my high school had a whole network set up with logins for everyone n I remember we had a messaging system called Crystal mail... also remember very last of the bbc masters had lighter moulded keyboards too...

This video audio has some damn high pitched sound going on, ouch.

Never saw these in school, they were all BBC Masters

Everyone loved the Bebba C Micro.

Hi Nerd, is incredible taht everytime i see an old computer, i want it. Is stronger than me :D I think the old computers are nicer than the ones today!! Why they don't make them in the keyboard case again? What do you think about it?

Anyonr know how to turn off the blue danube and cancel autodock?

I have a lot of experience with the BBC Micro Model B, even wrote several programs for it, even a couple of games, but unfortunately, none of them exist anymore. But it was a great, robust system to work and play with, I can tell you that!

Got some sort of high pitched whine going on in the background

BBC Micro is an anachronism.

Is anyone else hearing a high pitched whine in the background of the entire video? Like electric interference or something?

I have one of those. It's my Fallout 4 rig.

grannys garden primary school boom

I used to miss them in Dixon's in the 1980s... So I would program the other open and waiting 8 bit micros to fool the public once touched as a bespotted oik (ME) would watch from a distance laughing to himself... then of course the staff of such shops got wise to my ploys... they would allow me to type in my code... and I'd be working away at my pranky magnum-opus and before you could say error at line 80 the buggers turned them off... bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz beep! and we're back... c*nts

Enjoyed the video but not the ever-present and dire background sound (I was going to say "background music" but that didn't seem appropriate).

Nice machine, but this computer was sold exclusively on the British education market and didn't compete with i.e. ZX Spectrum as a home computer, am I right?

This reminds me of school, they used to have rooms full of these. I still remember the day when they were all replaced in the 90's with 486 PC's, our teacher put doom on them and networked them all together, every dinner break was a lan party.

The bibisee was overhyped and unreliable. So glad I chose wisely and had the amazing and more powerful TI-99/4A

'BBC' not 'bbc'

Good video, but please dump tbe back ground music, it's so distracting.