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Acorn was not obscure. It was a household name, with TV ads and such. There's this nice TV show about Sinclair and Acorn from BBC 4. https://www.youtube.com/wa
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
Acorn was not obscure. It was a household name, with TV ads and such.
There's this nice TV show about Sinclair and Acorn from BBC 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM (Micro Men)
- mattbee 6y agoAs a Brit I agree, I muttered my way through the parochial tone. Now imagine the parallel universe where it had been the Dragon 32 whose CPU had taken over the world :)
- UncleSlacky 6y agoAh, you mean the copy of the Tandy Color Computer...
- jacquesm 6y agoImproved copy. But still, a copy. That said, the degree to which the CoCo used software where other computers used hardware was very impressive and allowed for some pretty neat modifications without even touching a soldering iron. Oh, and the Dragon 32 actually had 64K of RAM which you could unlock entirely from software (it took a buddy of mine a couple of months to figure out how to keep the computer running when enabling that upper 32K after I figured out that it had the extra memory).
- sys_64738 6y agoI'd doubt a lot of people who knew about the BBC Micro would know who made it. Acorn was obscure as the company wasn't front and center of the BBC initiative.
- timrichard 6y agoThat drama is even more enjoyable the second time around with commentary from three of the Acorn team portrayed : https://youtu.be/yaonVYOTSsk https://youtu.be/yaonVYOTSsk
- klelatti 6y agoHerman Hauser: "Did that happen" Chris Curry: "NO!"
- klelatti 6y agoWith Sophie Wilson as the barmaid in the Baron of Beef Pub in Cambridge at the end!
- 29athrowaway 6y agoIndeed, a cool cameo. She was one of the designers for the "Acorn RISC Machine" (today known as the ARM architecture).