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BBC Microcomputer Service Manual

Acorn Computers Limited

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Type
Technical manual
Tier
A: Vendor documentation, a government document, a technical manual or an official benchmark result. One tier A source is sufficient to publish a figure.
Locator
Sections 1.2.2, 3.1, 3.3 "CRT controller + video processor + Teletext hardware" (printed p. 12), and 3.14
Published
October 1985
Consulted
2026-08-24
Address
https://archive.org/download/bbc-micro-service-manual/BBC-Micro-Service-Manual%20Sections-1-2-3_djvu.txt
Archive
https://archive.org/details/bbc-micro-service-manual
Retrieved
318902 bytes, SHA-256 62240491cd26cbfb… Recorded by the pipeline as evidence of what was downloaded, never as a fact about the hardware.
License
Copyright Acorn Computers Limited. Quoted here under short-extract fair use for verification of the figures cited.

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