Acorn A3000
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Uploaded by SoundLad on Oct 27, 2006
The Acorn A3000 was used in my school when i was young it was a great learning curve although i prefared the BBC B which was great for games...
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got one of them in my very smal computr collection
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The economies of scale from the taiwanese PCs killed it. They should designed a reference board, licensed the OS and let the Taiwanese build it as cheap as only they could. A 'fabless' business model that has worked so well for ARM. Can't wait for windows 8 on ARM. Anyone know how much cheaper a Cortex A15 is compared to i3?
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I had an a305, for its day it had terrific performance. Acorn went there own way a bit too much. The graphics modes weren't PC compatible so you couldn't use cheap PC VGA monitors (at first). You had to use expensive SCSI CDROM drives NZ$2000 when you could get a soundblaster CDROM kit for NZ$500. Couldnt expand the memory beyond 4Mb. Sound was 8 bit logarithmic (equivalent 12bit) and noisy. Graphics palette was (effectively) fixed 256 colours
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god damn 700quid lol my new laptop cost me 500 lol
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Can it play Crisis!?!
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It's a pity they were so expensive compared with the Atari ST and Amiga, they were a great computer for the time.
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What a no internet - this pc sucks! :p
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I had the A3020 it was great!! For home use it was not as good as the Amiga though for obvious gaming reasons!!
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@Jamiep84 True, True. I showed him my RiscPC which came out later. Blew the pants off his P90. I had an A310 and an A3000 and an A3010 as well. Compared them to the Amigas. Before pentiums comparing an Archie to a IBM PC compatible was like comparing a dinosaur to an iphone. Remeber CGA...4 colors WOW! or Tandy IBM compatible Hercules graphics? 2 colors(In high def no less...256x320??)...no comparison to an Amiga or early Archie.
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When Commodore did there A500 promo it really got you engrossed in the machine as it went into detail about what it could do. This ad did not or would not sell me an A3000, sorry Acorn.
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No, they were indeed massively ahead of the equivalent PC technology of the time. BBC computers were a great British institution - you should be proud of them.
Furrowbrow 4 years ago 6
The Archimedes was released way before the P90. In 1987 the 386 PC had only just been released, and Windows (version 2) was seriously crap and hardly being used anywhere.
Jamiep84 3 years ago 2