Foreword
A few years ago, the suggestion that you might have a computer in your own
home would have been greeted with disbelief. Now, home computers are an
accepted fact and more and more people are beginning to investigate their
potential.
Thankfully, the intervening years have seen many developments and today's
microcomputers offer real computing power making them suitable for use not
only in the home but also in classrooms, laboratories and our increasingly
automated offices.
BBC Microcomputer systems have been available; throughout this period of
change and, as a result of a process of continuous development, they span a
wide range of facilities and sophistication whilst maintaining software
compatibility. This ensures that with the arrival of new models there does not
come an enforced wait for software with which to put the machine to work. The
computer you have just purchased is provided with some of the most highly
developed software for the BBC Microcomputer range and there are literally
thousands of other programs which can potentially be used on your computer.
Welcome to the world of personal computing!