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Acorn 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.
by Lio 8y ago
Acorn 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.