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 Acorn  co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing

Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing

Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of... Read more

Oct 7, 2009

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Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive

Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive

Acorn Risc PC Launched in 1994, the Acorn Risc PC came out of... Read more

Sep 3, 2008

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Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?

...or Spectrum? Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? silicon.com readers have...actually started in the late 1970s, with computers such as the... Read more

Apr 30, 2008

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Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer

Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer

...part of the collection. These 56Hz bandwidth red LED calculators from the 1970s are expected to fetch £200-£300. Photo credit: Bonhams Read more

Sep 29, 2009

silicon.com > Management > Public Sector

Q&A: Acorn co-founder Andy Hopper

Acorn's co-founder, Andy Hopper...a PhD in the late 1970s for his work on high... Read more

Jan 4, 2007

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My first computer: The Vic-20

...we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Acorn Electron. Here Tony Hallett remembers the Vic-20. Let's be honest... Read more

Jan 27, 2005

silicon.com > Management > CIO Insights

Who deserves a UK tech gong? Tell us?

...single room in the mid-1970s to a business bolstered by...dream. Saxby took on this Acorn offshoot as a small Cambridge... Read more

Sep 9, 2004