Acorn Archimedes

Acorns launch video for the Archimedes computer, the first 32 bit ARM RISC machine. The machine was launched June 16th 1987. This video came from http://www.acornpreservation.org/ in a huge 100mb video file.

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Entertainment

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• acorn
• archimedes
• arm
• risc
• os
• arthur
• bbc
• micro

[nutellajunkie]

Being an Amiga lover, I always did appreciate how acorn worked. Very responsive and usable, unlike todays OS's.

[SegaMegadriveMic]

Acorn A3000 was great at it's time.

[10p6]

@DingKong The Falcon was way more powerful than the A1200. The Falcon may have been crippled by a 16 bit address bus, but it had much faster ram and other hardware.

[10p6]

The Archimedes was a great machine, but just like the BBC B it was overpriced which prevented many families from owning it; schools too for that matter.

[DingKong]

@bobbystar101 Really? The A1200 was far more popular than the Falcon

[dezhar]

I rememeber when this came to my primary school in 88. Really wanted one. Only now I realise they cost a couple of grand to get one! That was the late 80s (89.) Silly money of that time and priced themselves out of the market. Then came the good ol 286 PC!

[namco21gamefreak]

I still have my Acorn A3000, bit tatty looking but it still works! awesome computer.

[koenlefever]

Last night I dreamt that I ditched all my PCs and returned to using my old Archimedes 305.

[rovercrew]

@bobbystar101 The Falcon had a 16 bit bus to help it with being backwards compatible with the ST line of software.

I don't think you can draw too many comparisons between the 8 and 16 bit Atari's as the company changed hands and had the bulk of technology behind the ST introduced to it through engineers brought in by Jack Tramiel. In fact I think Atari had about 70% of its staff fired when Jack took over.

[madcapoperator]

The archimedes was the machines we had when I started primary school. Wasnt until about 1998 we got windows computers in!