Hardware
| Name Sort descending | Description |
|---|---|
| Acorn ABC 310 | Acorn's ABC-310 was to be the flagship of the Acorn business computer range. As far as I can tell, the 310 is the rarest variant, and it is the only one to have no direct equivalent available via… |
| Acorn ABC Personal Assistant | The ABC Personal Assistant is simply a repackaged BBC B+ with a 5.¼" floppy disc drive, Econet and a green screen. View and Viewsheet in ROM provide the applications. |
| Acorn ABC Terminal | ABC Terminal64Kb RAM memory. |
| Acorn Archimedes | The Acorn Archimedes was Acorn Computers Ltd's first general purpose home computer to be based on their own ARM architecture. Using a RISC design with a 32-bit CPU, at its launch in June… |
| Acorn Archimedes 305 | The Acorn Archimedes was Acorn Computers Ltd's first general purpose home computer based on their own 32-bit ARM RISC CPU. The name is also commonly used to describe computers which were based on… |
| Acorn Archimedes 310 | The A305 and A310 were launched in June 1987. It was the first RISC CPU based computer in the world. There were 2 models, the A305 and the A310. The A305 could be upgraded to the A310… |
| Acorn Archimedes 440 | The 400 series included 4 expansion slots (although a 4 slot backplane could be added to the 300 series) and an ST506 controller for an internal hard drive. Both models included the Arthur OS (… |
| Acorn Archimedes 440/1 | The third Archemedes model Acorn launched in July 1989 was the A440/1. It not only had 4MB RAM, but also a 53MB ST506 hard disc. |
| Acorn Atom | The Acorn Atom was a home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd from 1980 to 1982 when it was replaced by the BBC Micro (originally Proton) and later the Acorn Electron. |
| Acorn BBC Master 128 | The Master 128 is the base model of the Master series. It was priced at £499 (inc. VAT). Unlike the BBC Micro, the Master 128 did not change during its lifetime, there was a single issue… |
| Acorn BBC Master 512 | The Master 512 is a Master 128 with a Master 512 module installed. The Master 512 module had an Intel 80186 CPU, 512KB of memory and runs Digital Research DOS Plus. The Master 512 was comparable… |
| Acorn BBC Master AIV | The Master AIV (Advanced Interactive Videodisc) was essentially a Master Turbo model with a SCSI interface and a VFS (Videodisc Filing System) ROM added, and formed the basis of the BBC Domesday… |
| Acorn BBC Master Compact | The Master Compact was launched in September 1986. It is quite different from the rest of the Master series having a 2 box design (3 if you count the monitor) like a modern PC. But what appears to… |
| Acorn BBC Master ET | The Master ET is an Econet Terminal. It is missing most of the ports on a Master 128. It only has Econet, RGB and Comp Video ports at the back and no connectors underneath. Unlike the other… |
| Acorn BBC Master Turbo | The Master Turbo is a Master 128 with a Master Turbo Module installed. I am not sure if the Turbo Modules were factory installed and sold as Master Turbos, or dealer/customer installed. However… |
| Acorn BBC Model A | Launched in 1981 to coincide with a computer literacy drive by the BBC, the Model A was the cheaper of Acorn's two machines at £299. The machine's high cost was compensated for by very impressive… |
| Acorn BBC Model B | The BBC Micro was developed by Acorn Computers for the BBC who were embarking on an education programme for the UK called the "BBC Computer Literacy Project". The BBC made it their mission to have… |
| Acorn BT Merlin M2105 | The BT Merlin M2105 was a dedicated communications terminal which was designed and manufactured for BT by Acorn. It is an Electron with an expansion box containing, modem, voice synthesis, serial… |
| Acorn Communicator | The Acorn Communicator is a business computer developed by Acorn Computers in 1985. The system sold in very low numbers to companies requiring a computer with a built-in modem. As a dedicated… |
| Acorn Electron | The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. It has 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC along with its operating… |
| Acorn LTM Portable | The LTM Portable is a "luggable" BBC Master (it weighs 17.5kg). It has a standard Master Issue 2 motherboard with an internal 6502 Co-processor . It is packaged with a green screen monitor and 2 x… |
| Acorn Phoebe | The Phoebe 2100 (or Risc PC 2) was to be Acorn Computers' next generation Risc PC, slated for release in late 1998. However in September 1998 Acorn cancelled the project as part of a restructuring… |
| Acorn Pocket Book II | Acorn launched the Pocket Book in 1992. The Pocket Book is an OEM version of the Psion 3. The main difference was in the built-in applications and, of course, the Acorn logos. The Pocket Book was… |
| Acorn R140 | The Acorn R140 workstation represents a major price |
| Acorn R260 | The R260 is functionally identical to the A540. The R260 was fitted with 8 Mb of RAM and a 100 Mb SCSI hard disc drive as standard, while the R225 came with 4 Mb of RAM and no hard drive, and was… |
| Acorn Risc PC 600 | In April 1994 Acorn launched the Risc PC 600 (sse the press release Acorn Computers Launches the Risc PC Range), their first major hardware change since the launch of the A540 and the ARM3 CPU in… |
| Acorn Risc PC 700 | The Risc PC 700 was launched in July 1995, it featured the faster 40MHz ARM710 CPU, RISC OS 3.60, more memory, VRAM as standard, 16 bit sound and bigger hard discs. The ARM710 gave approximately… |
| Acorn STB-1 | STB-1 unit was an early prototype that preceded the actual Acorn Set Top Box 1 (Online Media).The Acorn Set Top Box was initially produced as the base units for the Cambridge Cable and Online… |
| Acorn StrongARM RiscPC | In September 1996 Acorn launched the StrongARM RiscPC. The StrongARM RiscPC is similar to the RiscPC 700, with a 202MHz StrongARM CPU , RISC OS 3.70 and bigger hard drives. |
| Acorn System 1 | The Acorn System 1, initially called the Acorn Microcomputer (Micro-Computer), was an early 8-bit microcomputer for hobbyists, based on the MOS 6502 CPU, and produced by British company Acorn… |
| Acorn System 2 | The Acorn System 2 was offered as a system by Acorn Computers from 1980. It was the successor to the Acorn Microcomputer (renamed the Acorn System 1). The system comprised four Eurocard-… |
| Acorn System 3 | The Acorn System 3 added a floppy disk controller card, floppy disk drive, and disk operating system ROM, replacing the cassette interface card and cassette operating system of the System 2… |
| Acorn System 4 | The Acorn System 4 was similar to the System 3, but in a double height frame, containing fourteen slots in the lower frame, and two floppy disk drives in the upper half of the frame above them.… |
| Acorn System 5 | The Acorn System 5 was the final Acorn rack-mounted system, released in 1983. It was mounted in an extra-height single 19" frame, which could accommodate two vertically mounted 5" floppy drives,… |
| Acorn Xemplar Matrix NC | Xemplar was founded in 1996 as a 50/50 joint venture between Acorn and Apple to sell to the UK Education Market. In 1998 Acorn was looking to sell its 50% and seeking a buyer. In January 1999… |
| ACT Apricot F1 | The design of the F1 is quite innovative with its original shape and infrared keyboard. The main unit is much more deep than large, and the straight line of the whole system was quite stylish for… |
| ACT Apricot F2 | Like the F1, the F2 and F10 had an infra-red interface for the keyboard and the mouse/trackball (the same infra-red mouseball pointing device used with the Apricot Portable). This interesting… |
| ACT Apricot PC | The Apricot PC is a personal computer produced by Apricot Computers. Released in late 1983, it was Apricot's first computer made for business use. |
| ACT Apricot Portable (FP) | The Apricot Portable was a portable computer made by Apricot Computers, first released in 1984. It had a 3.5" floppy drive, 4.77 MHz CPU and 256 KiB RAM. It was the first computer to use an 80-… |
| ACT Apricot Xi | The Xi was the hard-disk version of the cream-coloured Apricot PC.The keyboard could be clipped to the underside of the machine, and a little cover would slide over the front panel to conceal the… |
| ACT Sirius 1 | This is a machine sold by ACT prior to the Apple in 1982. It was made in the US by Sirius Systems Technology. |
| Action Max | The Action Max is a home video game console using VHS tapes for games. It was manufactured in 1987 by Worlds of Wonder. The system had a very limited release outside the U.S. The Action Max… |
| Actrix | The Actrix computer, released in 1984 by Actrix Computer Corporation, was a Zilog Z80-based transportable personal computer running CP/M-80 V2.2. Its predecessor was the Access_Computer computer… |
| Actrix DS | This transportable computer was originally produced by Access Matrix Corporation, San Jose, CA. The Company name then changed to Actrix Corporation. The machine was thus named Access, then Actrix… |
| Acube systems AmigaOne 500 | Built around the well known Sam460ex, the AmigaOne 500 will let you run AmigaOS 4.1 straight out of the box. No need to look for and install peripherals, no need to hassle with software… |
| Acube systems Eye Motion | The 2D engine has front-end color space conversion with 4:1 and 1:8 scaling support. The video engine supports two different video outputs (Dual Monitor) at 8, 16, or 32-bit per pixel and a 3-… |
| Acube systems Minimig | The Minimig, the first hardware emulator of an Amiga 500 system based on Dennis van Weeren's open source project and produced by ACube Systems in Italy. |
| Acube systems Sam440ep | One of the main features of the Applied Micro PowerPC 440EP is the presence, together with the CPU, of a number of integrated peripherals. This allowed us to build a complete system with a huge… |
| Acube systems Sam440ep-Flex | Sam440ep-Flex is a PowerPC modular motherboard engineered and produced by ACube Systems and it is totally made in Italy. |
| Adamo 13 | The Adamo 13 was released on March 17, 2009, in the US with a 1.4 GHz (or 2.1 GHz) Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB (or 4 GB) of 800 MHz DDR3 memory, a 128 GB SSD(or 256 GB SSD), and a 13.4-inch… |
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