Date   : Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:12:06 +0100
From   : "Andrew Hancock" <Andrew.Hancock@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Proton?

Richard

When I had the option of ordering a BBC Computer in the early 80s, I
could
select between the Model A or Model B to purchase, shortly after the
initial
offer, the prices were increased and the Model A was discontinued, you
could
only then purchase the BBC Computer (which was a B).

I didn't have the money, to purchase a Model B, initially, so I
purchased a
Model A with 16k, but quickly found I needed more memory and 6522 VIA
chip
to play Acornsoft Planetoids! (Defender), so I ordered these separately,
I
upgraded my A to a B many years later.

Regards

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
Of
Richard Hobbis
Sent: 25 October 2005 22:56
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Acorn Proton?

Kewl, thanks for all the replies and links.
Yeah the disintegration and demise of Acorn is a real shame - so
promising
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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