The Computers That Made Britain

[RobertBe]

I just found this out today. The book, "The Computers That Made Britain," is available as a free e-book or you can purchase a hardcopy at:

https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/books ... de-britain

Among the various platforms, CBM computers that are covered are the PET 2001, VIC-20, C64, and the Amiga.

Leaving out other CBM computers,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group -
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network -
http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan
Nov. 6-7 Commodore Los Angeles Super Show 2021 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/class

[srowe]

Among the various platforms, CBM computers that are covered are the PET 2001, VIC-20, C64, and the Amiga.

Leaving out other CBM computers,

The later 8-bit systems (C128, C16, Plus4) really didn't take off here in the UK, the market was saturated by that point.

[orion70]

Too bad that the British pound is flying so high, and with Brexit you get extra costs for customs and long time to delivery.

I haven't been buying stuff from the UK for a long time for these reasons

[Brad]

I just found this out today. The book, "The Computers That Made Britain," is available as a free e-book or you can purchase a hardcopy at:

https://wireframe.raspberrypi.org/books ... de-britain

Thanks for the heads up. Looks like a great book.

[huffelduff]

I just found this out today. The book, "The Computers That Made Britain," is available as a free e-book:

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the link to the book.
Been reading it and the first pages I looked at was the VIC and the C64 of course.
I also looked the Acorn Risk Machine (ARM) history, the BCC Micro, Acorn Electron and so on. (Chris Turner and Sophie Wilson stories)
It blows my mind that there have been 200 billion ARM chips manufactured to date.
That's 200 Billion with a B.
It makes the ARM series of processors with their support chips the most successful in history.

Anyways thanks again

H

[beamrider]

Thanks for this link. Along with the Vic-20 pirating book, I have plenty of bed-time reading.