Once again Technologies that Time Forgot takes you back to an age where children's programme Grange Hill was the best soap opera on television and New Romantics were ushering in an era of electro-pop, ...

Playing Elite, the iconic space simulation game, on a BBC Micro Model B on a friend’s personal computer was one of my first major gaming experiences. Now, the computer is celebrating its 39th birthday ...

The BBC is giving a million Micro Bits, mini-computers similar to the much-lauded Raspberry Pi, to 11-year-old children across the United Kingdom to support its bid to make the country more digital.

The BBC has begun delivering up to a million of its micro:bit mini computers to school children in the UK for free. Announced last year as part of the organization's Make it Digital initiative, the ...

In 2012 the BBC decided to produce a computer chip that would teach children how to code. But now, almost four years after the decision to build the BBC Micro Bit, schools in the UK are yet to get ...

About a year after announcing plans to distribute a million tiny computers to UK students, the BBC is now delivering micro:bit devices. The BBC micro:bit may not look like much of a computer, but it’s ...

If you are of a certain age and nationality, you’ll remember the BBC Micro or Beeb, a computer produced by Acorn for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, an effort by British Broadcasting Corporation to ...

As part of its 10th birthday celebrations, the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in the UK set eight computing machines spanning 80 years against each other in a race to find numbers in a ...

For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of 8-bit machines through the middle of the decade was to transfer their range and ...

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 ...

Partners including Microsoft and Samsung will also work with the British public broadcaster to generate wider use of the open-source technology. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor The BBC and 29 partners ...

The BBC has launched the Computer Literacy Project Archive on its BBC Taster website to give people access to a project it was part of four decades ago. In the 1980s, the broadcaster ran a national ...