In the autumn of 1993, the British home computer business was no longer a polite contest…
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Acorn A4: the 1992 ARM laptop that was quietly ahead of its time
The Acorn A4 is one of those computers that sounds simple when you describe it quickly,…
Before the iPad: how Acorn’s NewsPAD imagined the future of tablets
Every so often, the history of computing throws up a machine that looks as if it…
The Acorn DeskLite and the future Acorn nearly entered
The Acorn DeskLite prototype is not the sort of machine that shouts for attention. It does…
Acorn A7000: inside Acorn’s lower-cost Risc PC alternative from 1995
When Acorn released the A7000 in 1995, it was not trying to outshine the Risc PC…
The Acorn Risc PC’s multiprocessor dream: Hydra, extra CPU cards and RISC OS reality
The Acorn Risc PC was already an unusual machine. It was modular, friendly, clever and very…
Zarch: the British ARM showcase that made the Acorn Archimedes look years ahead
Picture a British school computer showroom in 1987. Not a place of neon futurism, not a…
RISC OS and the Acorn Archimedes: inside the birth of ARM computing
When RISC OS debuted on the Acorn Archimedes in 1987, it represented not merely a new…