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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]
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]
In brief: Acorn says goodbye to chips
News Acorn may sell its remaining 26 per cent share in ARM, according to recent press reports. The chip maker's value has soared to £501m since the bulk of it was sold by Acorn early last year. However,... [14 Aug 1998]
Acorn opens digital TV research facility
News In a move to reposition itself away from its failing PC processor business Acorn is opening a new digital TV processor research facility in Bristol. In September, Acorn announced it would stop developing... [17 Dec 1998]
Acorn sells out for £270m
News Acorn Group has agreed to a £270m bid from investment house, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The move will see Acorn shareholders receive two shares in ARM - the chip-designing firm part-owned by... [27 Apr 1999]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Acorn Electron
News Following last week's look at the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (http://www.silicon.com/a50364 ), this week we consider one of its rivals in the UK home computing market almost 20 years ago, the Acorn Electron. [18 Jan 2002]
Those were the days: The Acorn Electron
Comment Yet again a journey down memory lane has produced a torrent of reader feedback, this week on the subject of the Acorn Electron (Technologies That Time Forgot: The Acorn Electron... [25 Jan 2002]
My first computer: The Acorn Electron
News But the rush never came and Acorn was left with a backlog of stock and the parts to make thousands of machines that nobody wanted. Acorn was not about to mess this up. Here Will Sturgeon considers one of... [14 Jan 2005]
In brief: Acorn takes refuge in digital TV
News Acorn Group is turning its back on desktop products, in favour of jumping on the digital TV set-top box bandwagon. The company has announced the cancellation of its Risc PC 2 project and said it will cut its workforce by... [18 Sep 1998]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The Daily Roundup: Cookies and a lovely slice of Wensleydale
News Technologies that time forgot: The Acorn Electron Foodie headline of the Day: Cookies may get a selection box Brits may have to justify every cookie while Europe gorges itself.http://www.silicon.com/a50546 [18 Jan 2002]
