Acorn BBC Master

The Acorn BBC Master, besides sporting a pretty cool name, was a lovely and rather powerful 8-bit micro, that was built as the successor to the popular BBC B micro, with which it was (mostly) compatible. The Master came with 128k RAM of RAM, a slightly faster processor and, well, you can discover everything there is to it by actually grabbing one.

This Acorn BBC Master auction should come in handy then. The computer comes in its original box and polys, is accompanied by a disk-drive and even has a selection of lovely games available for it. Among them you will find such classics as Elite, Frak Barbarian II, Repton Through Time, Qwak and Mr Wiz. Seller ships only to UK addresses, but asking for overseas shipments might actually work.

The BBC Domesday Project System

The Domesday Project was an immensely ambitious project, that would create a contemporary, multimedia version of the 11th century Domesday Book, accessible via Acorn's BBC micros and laserdiscs. Shockingly, the 1984-86 project more or less succeeded in its lofty goals and came up both with the needed hardware and two discs (the Community Disc and the National Disc) filled with census data and personal accounts of the mid-80s. You can find out more about the BBC Domesday Project over at Wikipedia.

What's more, you can now actually own a complete Domesday System and either start a computer museum or deeply impress your friends. You can start by grabbing the main system (a SCSI enabled BBC Master with trackball), the laser-disc drive (Philips' LV-ROM), the monitor, the system discs (with some extras) and and the BBC Countryside LV-ROM. All those links do of course lead to eBay auctions (by the same seller) and the items can be shipped to Europe, United States, Australia and Canada.