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Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s.
Acorn Computers was a British computer company based in Cambridge. It was set up in 1978 by Chris Curry and Hermann Hauser. Arguably Acorn's most famous computer was the BBC Micro which could be found in practically every school in the country in the 1980s!
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Dec 20, 2020 · Acorn was a Cambridge-based firm that started in 1979 after developing computer systems originally designed to run fruit machines—we call them slot machines—then turning them into small...
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Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes.
Sep 23, 2022 · How did Acorn Computers, a small UK company that produced the BBC Micro, create its own CPU from scratch in 1983? Learn about the challenges, the choices, and the legacy of the RISC-y business that made ARM a global leader in microprocessor design.
Nov 16, 2021 · The Acorn Archimedes was steadily updated from 1987 to 1992, with its most powerful iteration boasting an ARM3 CPU, 8MB of RAM and an internal hard disk with a whopping 160MB capacity. More than comparable in power to the i486 Intel PCs becoming popular as business computers at the time.
