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Acorn BBC Micro Model B+

Acorn · 1985

Acorn's stopgap between the Model B and the Master: 64K or 128K of memory with shadow RAM for the screen, freeing space that the B could not spare, and the 1770 floppy controller as standard. Sold mainly into schools already committed to the platform, and unloved at the time for being neither one thing nor the other. That makes it uncommon now, and it runs a body of later software that will not fit a Model B.

As catalogued

Maker
Acorn
CPU
Rockwell 6512A-2
Memory
64K, 128K
Styles
B+ 64K, B+ 128K
Regions
PAL (UK)
Chassis
beige case, cream keys
OS
Acorn MOS 2.00

Chips

7
CPU
Rockwell R6502A, Synertek SY6502A, MOS 6502A
Video ULA
Ferranti 5C022E, VideoProc (VIDPROC)
Serial ULA
Ferranti 2C199E
CRTC
Hitachi HD6845, Motorola MC6845, Synertek SY6845
Floppy controller
Intel 8271, WD1770, WD1772, none fitted
OS ROM
OS 0.10, OS 1.00, OS 1.20, OS 2.00 (B+), MOS 3.20, MOS 3.50
BASIC ROM
BASIC I, BASIC II, BASIC IV

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