Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England in 1978 by Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry and Andy Hopper. The company produced a number of computers during the 1980
A collection of Acorn 8-bit computers including the Master, Master Compact, Electron, BBC Micro and Atom
The Acorn System 1, upper board; this one was shipped on 9 April 1979.
The BBC micro released by Acorn in 1981
The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a family of microcomputers developed and manufactured by Acorn Computers in the early 1980s as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project. Launched in D
Acorn Computers
…technology like processors. The company's Acorn Electron, released in 1983, and the later Acorn Archimedes, were highly popular in Britain, while Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the educational computer market during the 1980s. The company also designed the ARM architecture and the RISC OS operating system…
Some of the BBC Micro team in 2008
Keyboard of a Model B, one of two very similar designs used on the model
Rear of the BBC Micro. Ports from left to right: UHF out, video out, RGB, RS-423, cassette tape, analogue in and Econet.