Information on systems available at TOC

[crustyasp46]

Thanks Gozmitjosh, I am working on one right now and will post it probably tomorrow. I don't Think rushing should be a factor as much as the presentation, a really good one. I can't rush much anyway and I have only spent any time on the computer learning anything for only about 4-5 months and to do a lot of things I am doing I have to google and search for the how to do it. But once we set up an initial presentation, then maybe we could enlist the help of a few others to help and then between the two of us we could prepare the systems information. And I think we could post each system as it is readied. I am also now wondering if There a real need to double post this in two areas? Just thinking of the volume and size it may be with 300+ systems.

My thoughts. As posted earlier suggestions and advice are greatly appreciated.

[crustyasp46]

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Acorn Computers were a British computer company based in Cambridge. Set-up in 1978 by Chris Curry and Hermann Hauser. Arguably Acorn's most famous computer was the BBC Micro which could be found in practically every school in the country in the 1980's !

Timeline

Year Month Event
1978 December Acorn formed by Chris Curry and Herman Hauser.
1979 March System One launched.
1979 to 1980 Systems Two, Three and Four launched.
1980 System Five launched.
1980 Acorn Atom launched.
1981 November BBC Micro Models A and B launched.
1983 August Acorn Electron launched.
1984 BBC Model B+ launched.
1984 Acorn Business Machine range launched, including Acorn Cambridge Workstation.
1986 January BBC Master 128 launched.
1986 September BBC Master Compact launched.
1986 ARM second processor launched.
1987 Acorn Archimedes A305, A310 and A440 launched.
1989 January Acorn R140 UNIX workstation launched.
1989 April Acorn RISC OS 2 launched.
1989 May to July Revised Archimedes range launched, consisting of A3000, A410/1, A420/1 and A440/1.
1990 June Acorn R260 and R225 UNIX workstations launched.
1990 October Acorn A540 launched.
1991 ARM Ltd spun off as a separate company, to produce ARM processors.
1991 November Acorn A5000 launched. First RISC OS 3 machine.
1992 June Acorn A4 portable launched.
1992 August Acorn A3010, A3020, A4000 and Pocket Book launched. A5000 enhanced.
1993 September Acorn A5000 alpha variant released (enhanced A5000).
1994 April Acorn RISC PC 600 launched. Includes updated RISC OS 3.5 OS.
1994 August Formation of Acorn Online Media.
1995 March First StrongARM RISC PC Processor Card powered up.
1995 July Acorn RISC PC 700 and A7000 machines launched. Both includes RISC OS 3.6.
1996 Acorn and Apple launch Xemplar Education.
1996 August Acorn Network Computer (NC) launched by Acorn Network Computing, Set Top box 2 launched by AOM, Stork and NewsPAD launched by ART.
1996 September Acorn StrongARM RISC PC launched. Includes RISC OS 3.7.
1997 May Acorn A7000+ launched (an enhanced A7000).
1997 September Acorn StrongARM RISC PC alpha variant launched (enhanced StrongARM RISC PC). Acorn NetStation launched.
1998 ARM Ltd floated on stock market, worth £1 billion on paper.
1998 September Phoebe (later Phoebe 2100) announced but never released. Acorn Workstations Division disbanded. Acorn rebranded as Element 14 and shifts corporate focus.
1999 July RISC OS 4 released by RISCOS Ltd.
1999 to 2002 Hardware, software and systems using RISC OS continue to be developed. Life goes on in the Acorn world.

Acorn Emulators

MODS: I KNOW DOUBLE POSTING

HT and Gozmitjosh I wanted to pm this but could not get the images to go on the PM. This is my idea of info for the systems.

[Guest]

Hmm. Im likin what Im seeing. Especially the part about info in the ROMS section. There are sections in there that I have no clue what they are and have to go look them up before I proceed. Sometimes this is a bit tedious but if the info is right there, all pain is gone.

[GozmitJosh]

should the info in the roms section be on some sort of a format? Or should it just be typed up and if it sounds good let it be?

[crustyasp46]

should the info in the roms section be on some sort of a format? Or should it just be typed up and if it sounds good let it be?

I am not sure, how it is to be done, HT will have to let us know. I am on flaky dial up so for me to upload would take forever. I get ideas for the site but am not technologicly advanced to do them in most cases. I started on the one posted before I even made the suggestion. A lot of it is cut copy paste and screenshots. There is probably an easier way to do it, but I am a real beginner after you get past turning the damn computer on.

[GozmitJosh]

well i have a very fast internet connection so if you where to try to mail me what you wanted to upload and where then i could do it for you if its to slow.

Other then that i guess i we will have to wait for HT to answer a bunch of questions

My email address is gozmitjosh@gmail.com if its easier to mail them that way then through the boards

[crustyasp46]

I can do that, I can work on more, and I think I will try also to get a couple of people to volunteer to help. If we get the help I suppose the best way to do it would have each of us take 5 or 10 systems each and then submit to you, and you if you have the time could edit them and prepare them for posting in the ROM section. The more I think about it , the more I agree that it is the best place for this.

[GozmitJosh]

I can do that, I can work on more, and I think I will try also to get a couple of people to volunteer to help. If we get the help I suppose the best way to do it would have each of us take 5 or 10 systems each and then submit to you, and you if you have the time could edit them and prepare them for posting in the ROM section. The more I think about it , the more I agree that it is the best place for this.

Yes that will be fine. I will upload anything that is mailed to me as long as i know what system it goes to.

[crustyasp46]

Yes that will be fine. I will upload anything that is mailed to me as long as i know what system it goes to.

That would have to be a given fact! Does sending a system in the format that I posted the example of seem OK?

[JAHGoVeg]

I AM SO SORRY FOR COMING IN LATE ON THIS!
I was hanging out with friends in chattanooga one day and stayed at home which has No internet connection at all, the next day.

Crusty had PM'd me about this and just wanted to say that I would like to help out with this.. Again, Sorry for coming in late on this.