Date   : Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:42:29 +0000
From   : Andy Armstrong <andy@...>
Subject: Re: Any Acorn old-timers in the house?

On 28 Nov 2005, at 20:07, Jules Richardson wrote:

> Andy Armstrong wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to get an oral history of the early days of Acorn off  
>> the ground. Check out folklore.org for the sort of thing I'm  
>> thinking of.
>
> Good luck! (*not* meant in a "that's going to be difficult" way :)

:)

> Some useful reference stuff if you haven't found it already:
>
> http://www.stairwaytohell.com/articles/AU-AcornHistory.html
> http://www.aether.demon.co.uk/computing/acorn/codenames.html
> http://www.nostalgia8.nl/banks/machinelst.htm
>
> ... regarding the codenames, I asked about others on usenet in  
> comp.sys.acorn.hardware a while ago; a search via google should  
> show up the thread - there were a few which weren't on the list.

Thanks for that - I think I found most of them. I'm more interested  
in the stories to be honest - have a look@... if you'd  
like to see what I mean. For that I need people who were close to  
Acorn at the time.

I have some personal recommendations but I wasn't all that close to  
Acorn at the time - and most of them are probably libellous anyway :)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net