BBC Micro Computer System Acorn DFS

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Nice, a custom build of a beeb!

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Of a beep ? Nooooo it's a fine machine. Surfin' from it now typing this ;-)

"Beeb" is what we used to call the Acorn BBC computers here in the UK. Every school in the '80s had hundreds of them and I had some of my earliest experiences on them

Acorn DFS = Acorn Disk Filing system... That's the operating system

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Beeb is also used as slang for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
 
You're lucky if you had hundreds of them, we had little over a dozen (I'd guess 15 because it's half a standard class size but that is a very rough guess).

I remember we had 2 BBC master computers.
 
ECONET was awesome. We didn't have that at school but I did a course later on that had a server with a hard disk drive.

My school had a couple of computer rooms, with about 30 BBC model Bs in each and every classroom had one too... Probably approaching about a hundred machines in total... These were all on the ecconet, with a large central hard drive... Then in the early 90's they were all replaced with Archimedies A3000 (IIRC, then later, quite a few were upgraded to A3020)... But I remember typing *I am MattParsons to log on and then access all my files

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Soooo it's worthless?

Darn... :-D

Not worthless! It looks in perfect condition and that software must be of historical value to someone!!!