Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The systems are based on Acorn's own ARM architecture processors and the proprietary operating systems Arthur and RISC OS. The first models were introduced in 1987, and systems in the Archimedes family were sold until the mid-1990s.
Archimedes 400/1
Acorn Archimedes A3000 computer main unit
Acorn Archimedes A3000 computer with cover removed
Acorn Archimedes A3000 main PCB. Corrosion from a leaky NiCd battery can be seen in the bottom left corner.
Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK, including the Acorn Electron and the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s.
Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry in Cambridge
The Acorn System 1, upper board; this one was shipped on 9 April 1979.
The Acorn Atom
The BBC micro released by Acorn in 1981