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If only it had the traditional orange F-keys. Then it would be perfect!

references:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro#/media/File:BBC_Micr...

or an actual ARM model:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes#/media/File:A...



If you’re feeling nostalgic just tweet some BBC Basic code to @bbcmicrobot.

BBC Micro Bot - 1000 Tweets of Code https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/ "BBC Micro bot runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator."


My memories prefer an Apple II theme. Either brown and beige or beige on off-white.


Fair enough in general, but the Raspberry Pi has an Acorn RISC Machine, of course. O:-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Acorn_RISC_Ma...


The ARM design was inspired by the 6502, which is shared by all of the most interesting 8-bit computers.


Fair enough in general. But specifically the first few generations of _ARM_ computers happened to have orange keys.




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