15 Nov
2011
15 Nov
'11
12:53 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
I'd never heard it.
Nor have I. To me, even in the States, "beeb" is a BBC Micro (we
Over here 'Beeb' or 'The Beeb' or even 'Auntie Beeb' is a common
name for
the BBC -- one of the major television and radio broadcasting companies.
By extension the name got used to man the BBC microcomputer (as you
understnad it).
-tony
> maybe just your Beeb's world will end in
2011. Zappo zzzzzzzsssssttt
That confused me at first becasue 'Beeb' has a totally differnt (and
possibly classic-computer-related) meaning over here...
Yes, me too - was 'beeb' a common US-ism for BeBox?