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Five years ago: Acorn and BT trial consumer NC
News The trial will combine Acorn's NC technology with BT's communications network and will be centred around BT's laboratories in Martlesham, Suffolk. David Lee managing director of the Acorn Group added, "we are already seeing that television is...
[June 11, 2002, 7:02]
Acorn to celebrate 30th anniversary
News Thirteenth of September will see the 30th anniversary of UK technology company Acorn Computers, famous in the 1980s 8-bit boom for its 6502-based microcomputers such as the Electron, Atom and BBC Micro.
[August 29, 2008, 17:35]
Acorn and BT trial consumer NC
News The trial will combine Acorn's NC technology with BT's communications network and will be centred around BT's laboratories in Martlesham, Suffolk. David Lee managing director of the Acorn Group added, "we are already seeing that television is...
[June 11, 1997, 16:38]
Acorn
Downloads Built on a foundation of simplicity, Acorn eschews the outmoded "many palettes" design from yesterday's editors. Acorn presents a fluid new interface that will be familiar to users of Apple's iLife applications.
[October 16, 2009, 20:47]
Acorn fights back with reduced losses
News The year end results to March have sent strong signals that Acorn is re-positioning itself as a 'worldwide technology developer' and its education market collaboration with Apple is reaping some benefit.
[March 7, 1997, 15:32]
Five years ago: Acorn fights back with reduced losses
News The year end results to March have sent strong signals that Acorn is re-positioning itself as a 'worldwide technology developer' and its education market collaboration with Apple is reaping some benefit.
[March 8, 2002, 6:01]
CBE honour for Acorn founder
News A UK computing pioneer who played a key role in the creation of Acorn Computers has been included in the New Year Honours List. Acorn Computers, which was founded in Cambridge in 1978, played a crucial role in the development of the UK computer...
[January 2, 2007, 12:10]
Acorn to show set-top box at CeBit
News Currently under evaluation in Europe, the US and Asia, the STB22 comes with ATM25 interface (or Ethernet), MPEG-2 decoder, integral Web browser and Java support.
[March 11, 1997, 14:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There is a ghost of an acorn abroad today - Acorn Computers has been relaunched. But it is Acorn in name only. Thanks to the BBC Micro, the original Acorn is part of the DNA of every computer child of the 80s, and the Acorn Risc Machine processor...
[May 12, 2006, 18:00]
Tech executives receive honours
News Several luminaries in the computer industry have received honours from the queen in the 2002 New Year's Honours List, including game designer Jez San, microchip executive Robin Saxby and Herman Hauser, who co-founded Acorn Computers.
[January 2, 2002, 17:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog This is a UK company who's previously done stuff for Acorn computers in the educational sector - don't get me started on Acorn - but is now branching out to Windows, PCs and other, more common markets.
[August 2, 1996, 18:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News This is a UK company who's previously done stuff for Acorn computers in the educational sector - don't get me started on Acorn - but is now branching out to Windows, PCs and other, more common markets.
[August 2, 1996, 17:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It started off as Computer Concepts, a two-man outfit flogging software for the Acorn Atom -- the forerunner of the Acorn Proton, better known now as the BBC Micro. CC wrote a word processor for the Beeb called Wordwise that quickly became an...
[July 28, 2006, 18:50]
BBC Micro designer gets New Year's Honour
News His success with the BBC Micro came during a 10-year spell in the R&D department of Acorn, the computer's manufacturer. The BBC Micro had been a surprise hit for Acorn. It became so popular in schools that 1.5 million were eventually sold, and some...
[January 2, 2008, 12:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Its many hundreds of dollars per user licence fee somewhat swamps the fact that Acorn (you remember Acorn) has announced a $199 terminal that'll use this technology: it'll cost more per year to run this than to buy everyone a computer in the first...
[June 20, 1998, 7:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Its many hundreds of dollars per user licence fee somewhat swamps the fact that Acorn (you remember Acorn) has announced a $199 terminal that'll use this technology: it'll cost more per year to run this than to buy everyone a computer in the first...
[June 20, 1998, 6:59]
ElectrEm
Downloads ElectrEm is an open source emulator of the Acorn Electron, a microcomputer related to the BBC Micro that was once quite popular in the United Kingdom. The emulator strives for cycle accuracy using an event based model and is written in C++ using...
[January 18, 2007, 7:00]
I agree
Talkback Besides which, the Acorn WIMP came out earlier, and is still far more user-friendly. I don't think anyone should compare the significance of windows 95 against colossus!
[October 3, 2009, 9:08]
Prior Art?
Talkback Looking at my 1987 Acorn Archimedes I see it has Page Up and Page Down keys.scuffle}{scuffle}{click} {Burrrr - Beep} {clump}{clump}{clump}{creeeeeeak}{click} Hmm dusty up here.scuffle}{scuffle} Thought so.
[September 1, 2008, 22:10]
Open source in education: Winning hearts and minds
Talkback The reason school s used Acorn technology in the past was simply it was better for what they wanted to achieve and RISC OS was more advanced as a user interface than Windows 3. Not only is the Ovum rep clueless about Open Source, he is also...
[March 8, 2006, 14:59]
