This blog is a personal recollection of the development of the first B&O products with built-in microprocessors, in the period from 1977 to 1984. It was written in 2019/2020 by Arne Rohde, who can be contacted at the email address arne (at) rohde.nz.
The writing started with a request some years earlier from Poul-Henning Kamp, blogger at ing.dk, who had a Beocord 9000 and had found an article I wrote about it in the magazine Elektronik in 1982. The document was intended as information for a presentation at the Danish Data History Museum (datamuseum.dk).
The document has now been converted to these pages, and expanded and updated with new material and contributions from a number of colleagues. It is possible that the pages will eventually be expanded to include memories of the early years from 1969 to 1977 in B&O’s EDP department, and the period from 1985 onwards with assignments for B&O Telecom.
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Microprocessors in B&O consumer products 