BBC Micro Computer System Acorn DFS

[psxphill]

"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

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.

[psxphill]

Yup, Amstrad CPCs and PCWs, also later Spectrums, Tatung Einsteins, the Opus disc drives shown in this unit, the Oric disc drive, and probably quite a few other places too.

They weren't popular by any stretch of the imagination, but they weren't limited to Amstrad either (The Spectrum didn't have a 3 inch drive until Sinclair sold the Spectrum to Amstrad).
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk#The_3-inch_compact_floppy_disk