Gary McNab is the founder of The Code Show. With over 30 years working experience within STEM related industries, from manufacture of printed circuit boards for the telecommunications sector, through to engineering in the aerospace…
Category: Acorn
Micro Men
Affectionately comic drama about the British home computer boom of the early 1980s. Legendary inventor Clive Sinclair battles it out with ex-employee Chris Curry, founder of Acorn Computers, for dominance in the fledgling market. The…
Acorn Atom
Released from 1980 until 1982. The Atom was a home computer from Acorn. It was essentially a progression of the MOS-6502 based machines that the company had been producing from 1979. The Atom was Acorn’s…
Acorn Archimedes A3010 & 30120
Acorn Archimedes A3020 and A3010 models were introduced in September 1992 as a lower cost replacement to the original A3000 model, but the A3000 has a sole emphasis on the educational market, where the later…
BBC Micro
Released on 1st December 1981, the BBC Micro is a microcomputer produced by Acorn, which was built for the BBCs Computer Literacy Project. The way these machines were produced and the way they worked, there…
Acorn Electron
Designed by Acorn, the Electron was designed to be a budget version of the BBC Micro. Acorn designed a single, customized ULA chip that was able to emulate the BBC Micro hardware, but it did…