Depite unparalled exposure and market saturation, the '''BBC Micro''' never made serious in-roads into the home computing market where it was beaten into third place by the much more affordable [[ZX Spectrum]] and [[Commodore 64]] until the arrival of the [[CPC|CPC 464]] pushed the ageing machine further down the pecking order.
The [[Acorn Electron]], a Spectrum-priced sibling of the BBC Micro, provides essentially the same software environment.
==Hardware==