They were never actually 'popular' here. Just the computer that was officially designated as the one that you learn on in school.
A few kids were able to get the parents to buy one for home, as it was 'Educational'... But if you could talk your parents into buying ANY of the other 8bit micros of the time Spectrum, C64, Dragon 32, Vic 20, etc etc, you wouldn't have chosen the BBC...
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