Restoring a vintage Logo Valiant Turtle #VintageComputing @LinuxJedi
Andrew Hutchings’ LinuxJedi’s /dev/null blog discusses restoring a piece of vintage educational hardware: a Valiant Turtle used with the Logo language on BBC Micro computers.
Back in the 1980s, many schools in the UK had BBC Micro computers as part of the BBC’s computer literacy project. One of the major strengths of the BBC at the time was its expandability, it had many different expansion ports.
The expansion possibilities meant that many addons were made for it, particularly for educational purposes. Around this time one popular computer language was Logo, which is a language to draw vector graphics. Not just on screen but drawn on paper too.
This led to one popular type of expansion for the BBC (and other 8bit machines at the time), known as a “Turtle” or “Roamer”.
There were several kinds around, but by far the cutest, and the one I used as a child in primary school, was a Valiant Turtle.
Andrew recently acquired a Valiant Turtle which was in need of restoring.
In general it appears to be in good physical condition, but it will need a bit of a clean.
See the items that were refurbished in the post here.
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