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===BBC's involvement===
During the 1970s, the BBC Continuing Education Department was considering how advancements in computer related technology would impact British society. Their Microelectronics Report<ref name="Microelectronics_Report">{{cite web |title=Microelectronics Report |url=https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/media/BBC-Microelectronic-government-submission.pdf |publisher=BBC Continuing Education Department |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref> in 1979 to the [[Manpower Services Commission]] describes formally their concerns about increasing polarisation and alienation in the workplace
The BBC required a [[microcomputer]] usable for demonstrations in their programming that could be purchased by the general public to enable the viewer to themselves experiment. They decided that such a microcomputer needed to be robust, have expansion capabilities and an implementation of BASIC compatible with [[BASIC A|Microsoft BASIC VN5]].<ref name="BBC_Microcomputer_Spec">{{cite web |title=BBC Microcomputer Specification |url=http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/beebspec.html |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref>
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