Date   : Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:56:19 +1300
From   : "Richard Hobbis" <Richard.Hobbis@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Proton?

Kewl, thanks for all the replies and links.
Yeah the disintegration and demise of Acorn is a real shame - so promisin
g but it just didn't quite take off as it should have. Damn Gates & Jobs!
 ;)

I guess if it hadn't been for BBC Television, the BBC Micro wouldn't have
 been as popular as it was, and we wouldn't all be here wasting(?) our
time playing 25 year old games now; but "Proton" is so much easier to say
 than "BBC Micro Model B" ... ;)

Richard, NZ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam [mailto:adamh128@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2005 9:31 a.m.
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Acorn Proton?
> 
> 
> > By the way, I do have documents that reference a System 6 
> and System 7 in 
> > the context of Acorn's earlier Systems 1 - 5. I'm guessing 
> that System 6 
> > was a provisional name for the Atom, and System 7 the BBC 
> micro. But at 
> > the time the Atom was well established, in theory what 
> became the BBC B 
> > hadn't even been thought of...
> >
> > So, was the System 7 the BBC B, or did Acorn have plans for 
> a machine 
> > prior to the beeb which never saw the light of day...
> 
> 
> A very nice history of Acorn can be found here: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_computers although reading 
> it is rather 
> sad towards the end :-(
> 
> 
> 
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