The Micro User

The Micro User

OCLC

215302691

The Micro User (titled BBC Micro User in the first three issues) was a British specialist

" which was available separately), a correspondence page offering help with computer problems, and approachable technical articles on programming and the BBC Micro's internals.

The magazine hosted the long-running Body Building series by Mike Cook, in which each article introduced a small electronics project that could be built and connected to one of the BBC Micro's I/O ports. The project could be ordered in kit form or fully assembled, or the reader could source the parts and design as the articles contained a circuit diagram.

There were regular columns on

or short type-in programs.

Watford Electronics and Technomatic were prominent advertisers, taking out multi-page spreads in every issue in the mid 1980s. From October 1983 the magazine carried the first four issues of Electron User as a pull-out; this then split off into an independent publication.

Acorn Computing

With the October 1992 issue, the magazine was renamed Acorn Computing. Each issue now came with a cover disc for user on RISC OS computers.^[1]

See also

• Acorn User
• Archive (magazine)
• BEEBUG (later Risc User)
• Electron User

References

External links

• Unofficial archive of The Micro User magazine
• The Micro User Cover Scans @ Acorn Electron World
• The Micro User Magazine @ Acorn Preservation Dot Org
• The Micro User Magazine @ The Centre for Computing History