The Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The systems in this family use Acorn's own ARM architecture processors and initially ran the A
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.
Risc PC is a range of personal computers launched in 1994 by Acorn, replacing the Archimedes series. The machines use an ARM CPU, developed by Acorn spinoff company ARM, and were thereby not IBM PC-co
Acorn Archimedes
…iX. The first Archimedes models were introduced in 1987, and systems in the Archimedes family were sold until the mid-1990s alongside Acorn's newer Risc PC and A7000 models. The first Archimedes models, featuring a 32-bit ARM2 RISC CPU running at 8 MHz, provided a significant upgrade from Acorn's previous…
Acorn Risc PC 600 with two case slices, 3.5-inch disk drive and DVD-ROM drive
Risc PC with lid removed, showing fixing lugs. The top slice has not been internally sprayed for RF shielding.
An ARM 710 CPU card for the Risc PC
The Acorn ACA56 Acorn PC card upgrade, showing the user guide, software disc, and card itself