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News Also popular last month was silicon.com reporter Nick Heath's interview with Acorn co-founder, Andy Hopper, and a look at the best sectors to work in IT from a pay-packet point of view. October's highlights on... [09 Nov 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's... [07 Oct 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo The lot also includes an FO3 Acorn cassette data recorder. This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated in 1958. Just 13 of the Leo II devices were... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: The evolution of the PC
Photo Acorn went on to produce the Archimedes series of computers and chips developed by its subsidiary ARM are used in many different mobile phone handsets today. Widely used in schools across the UK the BBC Micro was a... [07 May 2009]
Photos: Making beautiful music with the earliest computers
Photo The BBC Micro was developed with computer manufacturer Acorn and was aimed at breaking Research Machine's stranglehold on the education market during the 1980s. The bleeps and beeps of the world's earliest computers are... [10 Mar 2009]
Lincolnshire council ditches Novell for Microsoft
News The migration to Microsoft products is being undertaken by IT integrator Fordway and forms part of the council's Actively Creating Opportunities for Remote and New Ways of Working (Acorn) initiative. The... [03 Sep 2008]
Photos: A dip into Bletchley's classic PC archive
Photo But what happened to Acorn? The BBC Micro was developed with computer manufacturer Acorn and was aimed at breaking Research Machine's stranglehold on the education market. Acorn Risc PC... [03 Sep 2008]
Does the ZX Spectrum deserve its crown?
News Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? And George Reywer from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne asked "what about the Acorn Atom? Amstrad or Spectrum? silicon.com readers have posted a flurry of comments around a poll we ran... [30 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking the deceptively simple question: what was your first home computer? This question formed the basis of our latest reader poll - which... [22 Apr 2008]
ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics
News Bringing up the rear were the Dragon 32 (five per cent) and Acorn Electron with just three per cent of the vote. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum has been crowned the most popular first home computer, beating off competition... [18 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.01.07
Round-Up That's right, worse than performing arts (which in the Round-Up's day was called 'music and movement' and was beneath even a room full of infants pretending to be an acorn growing into a big tree). Andrew Hopper, a... [05 Jan 2007]
Q&A: Acorn co-founder Andy Hopper
Comment Acorn's co-founder, Andy Hopper was appointed Commander of the British Empire for services to the computer industry in the New Year's honours list. Acorn produced several microcomputers - including the... [04 Jan 2007]
My first computer: The Dragon 32
News The company soon received a timely boost from its rivals: Acorn and even the mighty Sinclair were hit by supply problems, and, thanks to some heavy promotion by Boots the Chemist, Dragon 32s were flying off the shelves. [10 Feb 2005]
My first computer: The Commodore 64
News Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the Acorn Electron and the Vic-20. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. [03 Feb 2005]
My first computer: The Vic-20
News Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Acorn Electron. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are running the full... [27 Jan 2005]
