The Micro Boom
The Micro Boom. A computer shop in Cambridge in April 1982. The BBC's microcomputer has a waiting list, a new colour computer is coming for under two hundred…
A computer in every home. For about two years.
A computer shop in Cambridge in April 1982. The BBC's microcomputer has a waiting list, a new colour computer is coming for under two hundred pounds, and every parent has been told their children need one. The makers ration what they send you, and each new model makes the last one hard to sell.
- Starts
- April 1982
- Length
- three years
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Scored on
- Finish with £280,000 in the bank
- Business
- Computer Shop
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