The article... well, it doesn't bury the lede, but it does completely omit it outside of the headline. For anyone who doesn't know the context: The BBC Micro was built by Acorn Computers, which proceeded to design the Acorn RISC Machine -- later renamed to Advanced RISC Machine and thence to simply "arm".
In many ways, the tuple (BBC Micro, Acorn Computers, arm) is analogous to (IBM PC, Intel, x86).
Acorn was doing stuff in Cambridge UK until more recently than I'd realised - it effectively incubated a load of talent that went on to find other companies. Famously ARM span out of it but many others also went on to do cool things - my current company was founded by Acorn people.
My memories of what I've heard over time:
* The grasshopper escapement actually is the demonic insect that sits on the top, "walking" around the serrated ring.
* Although it's backlit electronically it's actually a fully mechanical design - including all of the weird things it does.
* The Chronophage itself blinks its eyes unnervingly.
* It sometimes pauses or ticks slightly backwards, then runs faster to catch up again.
* On certain special dates it does extra weird stuff.
* The "chime" is a metal chain dropping into a box.
There were three made in the series, this was the first one. I've always found it slightly unappealing aesthetically but also compelling - there's no arguing with the fact that there's always a crowd of fascinated observers looking at it.