I saw the PCW as a different kind of thing to the Archimedes, it was an appliance rather than a general purpose computer. My sister ran a theatre box office off

I saw the PCW as a different kind of thing to the Archimedes, it was an appliance rather than a general purpose computer. My sister ran a theatre box office off a PCW spreadsheet (each day's bookings printed out, signed and put into a ledger and a copy saved to one of the chunky non-standard 3" disks). I used PCWs in the College library to write handouts and cut stencils for a Gestetner duplicator. Later when encountering an Apricot PC running Aldus Pagemaker on Windows (Or GEM? Can't remember now) I recognised it as the same kind of thing as the Archimedes. As was the funny little monochrome Macintosh. I'm a bit old for the Sinclair thing. Some technical details... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/09/joyce_turns_30/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/09/joyce_turns_30/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/archaeologic_amstrad_cpc_464/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/12/archaeologic_amstrad... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/01/acorn_archimedes_is_25_years_old/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/01/acorn_archimedes_is_... The A310s were built like tanks and were very fast for the time... unless you wanted to do floating point calculations. You could get a podule with a floating point extension unit on it.