Good to meet another BBC BASIC aficionado. I did scrape enough money together to buy a BBC model B (was an engineering freshman at the time) and I used the Beeb as my primary computer probably longer than I should have. Wrote a word processor in BBC BASIC, which I used for my final thesis and also a complete Monopoly game. Loaded off tape. Fit in 32K memory....

I'm glad that BBC BASIC offered a more structured version of the language, with named subroutines and all, since it allowed me to move fairly painlessly to my next language, Turbo Pascal on a PC, followed by Turbo C.