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The Acorn was my first programming computer at school - I didn't know it was from BBC Micro lineage! We were pretty lucky to have about 20 of them. I did NOT ma
by telesilla 8y ago
The Acorn was my first programming computer at school - I didn't know it was from BBC Micro lineage! We were pretty lucky to have about 20 of them. I did NOT make enough use of this resource as a teenager, to my adult self's chagrin. This was largely because as a teenage girl, the last thing that was gonna happen was spending my lunch hours in the computer room where boys were playing adventure games. Lame. (Future me kicks teenage me).
- Lio 8y agoAcorn was the manufacturer rather than the model. So the Acorn logo was on the back of the BBC computers, the Electron and on later Archimedes lines.
- jacquesm 8y agoThis one started it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_System_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_System_1 And this was the breakthrough Acorn Atom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Atom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Atom The lessons learned there all went into the BBC Micro.
- Wildgoose 8y agoI still my have my Acorn Atom - a FANTASTIC computer. The manual was exceptionally good as well, with the catchy title "Atomic Theory and Practise". I taught myself to program using that.
- nmstoker 8y agoI suspect that telesilla knew that and merely missed out the word Electron by mistake (given the post it was a response to mentioning the Electron connection).
- Lio 8y agoYep that could easily be possible, I would hope my reply hasn’t come across negatively. Certainly not my intention. I do remember from the time that referring the Electron simply as The Acorn (due the prominent Acorn logo on the top) was very common so my reading it as such in the parent post didn’t seem unusual. I always assumed it was because the BBC Micro had such strong branding that people didn’t realise it was an Acorn product. The logo was there on the back but very small.