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    The Acorn Atom is a home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd from 1980 to 1982, when it was replaced by the BBC Micro. The BBC Micro began life as an...
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    modular system strongly influenced the design of Acorn's first all-in-one home computer, the Acorn Atom, released in March 1980; and also much of the circuitry...
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  • of Acorn on Unlisted Securities Market, Electronics Times, 6 October 1983 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Acorn Computers. The Acorn Atom pre-history...
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  • smartphones and tablets Acorn Atom, an early 1980s home computer Atom (web standard), an XML-based web syndication format Atom (programming language),...
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    the BBC science-fiction series Blake's 7. Acorn System 2 Acorn System 3 Acorn System 4 Acorn System 5 Acorn Atom Meyer, David (November 19, 2010). "Dead...
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  • variety of computer platforms, in chronological order: the Acorn Atom, BBC Micro, Z88, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and more recently...
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    include: Acorn Computers Acorn Eurocard systems Acorn System 1 Acorn Atom BBC Micro Acorn Electron BBC Master Acorn Archimedes RiscPC Acorn Network Computer...
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  • required host environment and licensing. While the ARM processor in the Acorn Archimedes is a 32-bit chip, it only had 26-bit addressing making an ARM/Archimedes...
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    BBC Micro (redirect from Acorn Proton)
    the television programmes and literature, Acorn won the contract with the Proton, a successor of its Atom computer prototyped at short notice. Renamed...
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    rival Acorn Computers put forward their proposed Proton computer, a design – of which a prototype did not yet exist – based on the Acorn Atom. To Sinclair's...
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  • Acorn System BASIC and Atom BASIC are two closely related dialects of the BASIC programming language developed by Acorn Computers for their early microcomputers...
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    was Acorn Computers's low-cost local area network system, intended for use by schools and small businesses. It was first developed for the Acorn Atom and...
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  • Adventure (1982 video game) (category Acorn Atom games)
    published in the UK by Micro Power. It was released on the Acorn Atom in 1982 and on the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro in 1983. The game is a text adventure...
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    Sophie Wilson (category Acorn Computers)
    customers, which in turn led to the Acorn Eurocard rack systems that were made generally available, and then the Acorn Atom released in March 1980. Wilson...
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    Econet (redirect from Acorn NetFS)
    turn superseded by the Acorn Access+ software. Econet was specified in 1980, and first developed for the Acorn Atom and Acorn System 2/3/4 computers in...
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    Dragon 32/64, Laser 200, TRS-80 MC-10/Matra Alice, NEC PC-6000 series, Acorn Atom, Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy and the APF Imagination Machine, among others...
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    Home computers and video game consoles using the 6502 or its variants Acorn Atom Acorn Electron Apple I Apple II Apple IIe Atari 2600 Atari 5200 Atari 7800...
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  • processing API on the operating systems for the Acorn Atom and the BBC Micro, and on RISC OS for the Acorn Archimedes and later machines, use the vertical...
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  • Manic Miner (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games)
    500 best games of all time. Unofficial ports exist for the Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Atom, Acorn Electron, Atari ST, Cambridge Z88, Commodore 128, HP48, Linux...
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  • school van Someren took summer jobs with Acorn Computers, contributing software for the Acorn Atom and Acorn Eurocard System machines, and then helping...
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  • entitled Interface. This User Group then expanded to include the ZX81, Acorn Atom and Spectrum computers, and provided a springboard for Tim and Trevor...
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    mail order. Ultimately, the BBC chose Acorn and standardized on a successor to the Acorn Atom—originally named Acorn Proton, but ultimately branded as the...
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  • 1982, Johnson-Davies wrote Practical Programs for the BBC Computer and Acorn Atom. In 1986, he left Acornsoft and established Human Computer Interface shortly...
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    keyboards were used on most 8-bit computers such as the Acorn BBC computers and the earlier Atom and Systems, the Amstrad CPC series, and (to an extent)...
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    Motorola and used in the TRS-80 Color Computer, Dragon 32/64, Laser 200 and Acorn Atom among others. The MOS Technology 6560 (NTSC) and 6561 (PAL) are known...
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    Motorola 6847 video display generator chip, as used in the Dragon 32 and Acorn Atom among others. At least three emulators for the system exist. The machine...
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  • the Acorn Atom but Micro Power is best remembered for its games for that machine's successor, Acorn's BBC Micro (with all but two of its post-Atom games...
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  • game console is released only in Germany. Computer The Sinclair ZX80 and Acorn Atom are the first home computers to play games in the UK. Tandy releases the...
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  • company founded in 1980 in Liverpool, initially producing software for the Acorn Atom and ZX80. Bug-Byte's first hit was Don Priestley's Mazogs which was one...
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  • the launch of the BBC Micro. It covered the range of Acorn home computers, the BBC Micro and Atom at first and later the Electron, Archimedes and Risc...
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