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The tech industry is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the BBC Microcomputer.

The system was built by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project.

It ran a new programming language, BBC Basic (beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code), and helped bring computing into people's homes and schools.

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A set of papers belonging to Bletchley Park codebreaker Alan Turing were put up for auction today but failed to reach their reserve price.

Campaigners had launched an appeal fund to buy the papers and keep them in the UK amid fears they would be snapped

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Soldiers at Fort Dix in the US are probably pretty jealous of eight lucky testers, who are currently putting futuristic wrist mounted computers through their paces.

Not just because the cool, curved displays show off strategic information, live UAV video

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The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park has received its largest donation to date.

A grant of £100,000 has been donated to the museum by Bletchley Park Capital Partners and its associates.

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Online digital storage devices and innovative internet connections mean working from anywhere in the world while travelling has never been easier. For the 20% of UK workers who spend three hours or more commuting each day living as a digital nomad could b

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In our regular series about makers, hackers and amateur technologists, BBC News meets the people giving the classic BBC Micro a new lease of life.

Computer history is cruel. It is a story of the old constantly being pushed aside for the newer, the faster

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Largest private collection of CPUs has been discovered upon one Russian guy has posted a message on a forum. His message says “here is my humble collection for you” and then listed something more than one thousand of different types of computer processors

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