@hankg Interestingly (maybe) I bought it, and a number of others because we really liked Mathematica - which came with the machine. They paid for themselves just for that and its utility.
@hankg NeXT was some cool shit. I also remember when we made fun of a Microsoft demo at our university when they showed off gasp OLE gasp in like 1993. NeXT and Amiga (via datatypes) had this shit way before. Heck, Oberon had embedding of stuff. It was in the air and lots of people grabbed it.
I am astounded at how advanced a game Elite was on the BBC Micro. This video does a great exploration of the mechanics of it, how it was written, the history around it, and its influences to this day. He also gave a big shout out to others who have thoroughly documented the game as well. #RetroComputing#RetroGaming#ComputerHistory Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"