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Large parts of this article appear to be copied verbatim from the Personal Computer World review in the external links section. Is this all right? Haeleth 19:49, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

The PCW contribution is now a small part of the article.Bendel boy

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Did Newbury tender for the BBC contract? I understood that they were asked to by the BBC and declined, leading Clive Sinclair to comment 'More no-brain than NewBrain.' The source is Philip Crooke, The NewBrain Files. Bendel boy 13:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Newbury did tender. Indeed they were one of the three shortlisted companies, with Tangerine and Acorn (Commodore was also considered, as a 'late entrant'), from which the winner was chosen at a meeting in Room 357, The Langham, at 1430 on Thursday, February 12th 1981. I have the agenda for that meeting in front of me as I write this! RichardRussell (talk) 10:58, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally the article is wrong to say that "BBC Engineering was instructed to attempt to draw up an objective specification". The specification for the BBC Micro was drawn up by John Coll. RichardRussell (talk) 10:58, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Do I understand correctly? If so, this article omits important data.

So, without a monitor of some sort I suspect it had 0 graphics @ all. I saw 0 mention of sound capabilities or lack either. Also it apparently had great graphics for the time if I understood article correctly, but entirely in black/white. 0 unheard of (suspect jupiter ace man I've had similar sit, but fairly extremely unusual, so a)article should address these matters b) included in pics should b 1 hooked up to external monitor and/or 📺.Slarty4 (talk) 23:00, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are correct. Of course, this applied to all computers of that era, and all non-laptop machines - without an external monitor they had no graphics. Yes, there was no sound - which is why there is no mention of it. Other machines, which do not have the built-in VF display, do not mention that they lack such a display. Bendel boy (talk) 11:41, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]