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
The Acorn Electron was a lower-cost alternative to the BBC Micro educational/home computer, also developed by Acorn Computers Ltd, to provide many of the features of that more expensive machine at a price more competitive with that of the ZX Spectrum. It had 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM included BBC BASIC II together with the operating system. Announced in 1982 for a possible release the same year, it was eventually introduced on 25 August 1983 priced at £199.
Acorn Electron
An Acorn Electron with Plus 1 expansion unit attached
The PRES Advanced Plus 3 with a 3½-inch drive
Acorn ALF03 Data Recorder