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Acorn Arcade forums: General: Nesta/Science Museum report 'The legacy of the BBC Micro'
 
  Nesta/Science Museum report 'The legacy of the BBC Micro'
  trevj (09:42 26/5/2012)
  qUE (12:40 27/5/2012)
    bhtooefr (14:19 30/5/2012)
 
Trevor Johnson Message #120495, posted by trevj at 09:42, 26/5/2012
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Posts: 625 		Bedtime reading?

[Edit: Science Museum press release, TechRepublic coverage]

[Edited by trevj at 09:55, 26/5/2012]
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qUE Message #120496, posted by qUE at 12:40, 27/5/2012, in reply to message #120495
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Posts: 138 		The science museum used to have a BBC which had a proggy on it which tried to guess what animal you were describing. The main flaw with this was that if you put an animal in it didn't recognise it allowed you to describe it, which only opened the door to abuse when you said the animal had 5 or more legs, or more than one head, etc.
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Eric Rucker Message #120506, posted by bhtooefr at 14:19, 30/5/2012, in reply to message #120496
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Posts: 335 		Interestingly, an early implementation of the game was one of the first trojan horses, with a payload that was one of the first viruses.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/animal.html
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Acorn Arcade forums: General: Nesta/Science Museum report 'The legacy of the BBC Micro'