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The main purpose of this page is to provide the support documents for products no longer supported by the company that originally produced them either because the company has ceased to exist or has left the RISC OS market. Many of these documents will also be linked to from the appropriate page under  Computers,,  32bit Upgrades,   8bit Upgrades  or  Software.

A NOTE ON COPYRIGHT

I acknowledge that most, if not all, of the documents on this page are subject to copyright. To minimise the copyright infringement (if such is possible), I will only place documentation for products that to the best of my knowledge are no long being active sold, developed or supported. If anyone claims ownership of the copyright of any of the documents on this page and objects to the document being made available here, please contact me and I will immediately remove it.

 Companies are listed in alphabetical order with Acorn at the front. You can jump to the initial letter using the table below:

 ACORN   1    A   B         F     H       K   L     N   O   P     R   S     U   V   W       Z 

Acorn

Application Notes

Here are the Acorn Application Notes . They are also available from RISCOS Development Ltd in the Acorn FTP site (see site map).

Brochures

Here are the Acorn promotional Brochures . In most cases they have been scanned, OCR'ed and saved as PDFs.

Customer Service News/Newsletters

Here are the Acorn Customer Service News and Newsletters .

Developers' Newsletters

Here are the Acorn ISV/Developers Newsletters.

Education News

Here are the Acorn Education News .

Engineering News

Here are the Acorn Engineering News. 

Higher Education News

Here are the Acorn Higher Education News .

Sales News

Here are the Acorn Sales News. 

Special Solutions News

Here are the Acorn Special Solutions News 

Guarantee, Owner Registration & Product Warranty cards

It seems unlikely that anyone will honour these guarantees, after all some are 20 years old.

Instructions and other technical leaflets

Manuals

Service Manuals

 Technical Reference Manuals

Monitors

These manuals are normally multi-lingual, but I have only scanned the English section of each manual.

Other Document

Press Releases

Acorn press releases and other announcements are here.

Third Party

 1

A

Acorn User

All articles are copyright Acorn Publisher ( www.acornuser.co.uk ) and are reproduced with John Cartmell and Acorn Pubisher's kind permission. The link after each article takes you to the Acorn User archive.

Item in Chris's AcornsAcorn User Article (pdf)Link to Acorn User Archive
 Solidisk Sideways RAM Exciting possibilities in a sideways RAM Acorn User Issue 19  Feb 1984
Aries B2020K RAM boost for the 'B'  Acorn User Issue 21  April 1984
 Acorn 6502 2nd processorNew Dimension in time and space?  Acorn User Issue 22  May 1984
 Acorn Bitstik  CAD within your grasp  Acorn User Issue 22  May 1984
 Acorn Z80 2nd processor Z80 Business Bundle Acorn User Issue 23  June 1984
 Acorn Electron Plus1 Electron Special Expansion factor   Acorn User Issue 24   July 1984
 Solidisk 128k Sideways RAM  It's faster via the silicon drive  Acorn User Issue 24   July 1984
Torch Unicorn Unicorn: cheapest route to Unix   Acorn User Issue 26  Sept 1984
 Acorn ABC310  Vertical Tack of the ABC   Acorn User Issue 28  Nov 1984
 Marconi RB2 Tracker Ball On the Ball  Acorn User Issue 38  Sept 1985
 BBC Master Master Work Acorn User Issue 44  March 1986
 Acorn Communicator The Future of the Communicator Acorn User Issue 47  June 1986
 Acorn 32016 2nd processor  Acorn's Supercomputer  Acorn User Issue 50  Sept 1986
 Technomatic Multiform Z80 2nd processor Improve Your Memory Acorn User Issue 51  Oct 1986
 PMS B2P 65022nd Processor  Second Half Acorn User Issue 56  Mar 1987 

Advanced Memory Systems

Advantage Six

Akhter

Aleph1

Argo Interactive

Aries Computers

Atomwide

Audio Dynamics

 B

BBCSoft

Beebug

 C

Castle

Cheetah Marketing

CJE Micro's

Computer Concepts

Computer Village

 Cumana

 D

 E

Eesox

EMR

Expressive Software Projects

 F

 G

GCC

 H

HCCS

 Hybrid Technology

Document markes (*) were converted to PDFs from scans on Chris Richardson's 8bs.com site.

 I

ICS (Ian Copestake Software)

I-cubed

IFEL

Intelligent Interfaces

Irlam Instruments

 J

 K

 L

Lingenuity

 M

Mertec

Microvitec

Morley Electronics

N

NetProducts

Nidd Valley

 O

Oak

 Opus

 P

Permanent Memory Systems (PMS)

 Personal Computer World

All articles are copyright Personal Computer World ( www.pcw.co.uk  ) and are reproduced with PCW's kind permission. Articles from 1996 onwards are available from the PCW website.

Item in Chris's AcornsPCW Article (pdf)PCW issue
Torch C series computerThe Torch Vol. 6 No. 1  January 1983
Busicomputer Prophet 2Prophet II Vol. 6 No. 3  March 1983
Acorn ElectronElectron Vol. 6 No. 10  October 1983
Acorn ABC 310Acorn ABC310 Vol. 8 No. 4  April 1985
Torch GraduateTorch Graduate Vol. 8 No. 6  June 1985
BBC Master 128BBC Master 128 Vol. 9 No. 3  March 1986
Acorn Archimedes A300AcornArchimedes Vol. 10 No. 8  August 1987
Acorn Springboard PC cardAcorn Springboard Vol.11 No. 1  January 1988
RISC OS 2Acorn RISC OS 2 Vol. 12 No. 1  January 1989
Acorn R140Acorn R140 Vol. 12 No. 3  March 1989
Acorn A3000Acorn A3000Vol. 12 No. 7  July 1989 
Acorn R260Acorn R260Vol. 13 No. 8 August 1990
Acorn A5000Acorn A5000Vol. 15 No. 2 February 1992
Acorn A4Acorn A4Vol. 15 No. 9 September 1992
Acorn A3010, A3020 & A4000A3010, A3020 & A4000Vol. 15 No. 10 October 1992
Aleph1 PC Expansion CardAleph1 PC Expansion cardVol. 15 No 12 December 1992
Herman Hauser interviewMissing the big timeVol. 16 No. 5 May 1993
RiscPC600Acorn RISC PC 600Vol. 17 No. 6 June 1994
Acorn 486DX PCcardAcorn RISC PC 486 co-processorVol. 18 No. 6 June 1995
Archimedes A310Acorn Archimedes A310Vol. 18 No. 7 July 1995

 

Pineapple

Practical Computing

All articles are copyright Practical Computing.

Item in Chris's AcornsPC Article (pdf)PC Issue
BBC MicroBBC MicroVol. 5 Issue 1 January 1982
Acorn ComputersChris Curry of AcornVol. 5 Issue 10 October 1982
Acorn ElectronElectronVol. 6 Issue 10 October 1983
BBC Second ProcessorsTo the BBC by bus and TubeVol. 7 Issue 12 December 1984
BBC B+64KAcorn BBC B+Vol. 8 Issue 7 July 1985
Acorn 32016 2nd ProcessorCambridge 32016 Co-ProcessorVol. 8 Issue 10 October 1985
BBC B+128BBC Plug-insVol. 8 Issue 12 December 1985
Acorn CommunicatorAcorn CommunicatorVol. 9 Issue 1 January 1986
ARM Evaluation SystemKeep it simple (RISC)Vol. 9 Issue 10 October 1986
Master 512 & Master CompactBBC Master 512 & CompactVol.10 Issue 1 January 1987

 

P.R.E.S. Ltd

 Q

 R

RAMAMP Computers

RH Electronics

Risc Developments

 RiscStation

 S

Simtec

 SJResearch

Slogger

Solidisk

Spacetech

State Machine

 T

The Concept Keyboard Company

The Serial Port

Torch

 U

 V

Vertical Twist

Video Electronics Ltd

Viglen

Vine Micros

 W

Watford Electronics

Wild Vision

 X

 Y

 Yellowstone Educational Solutions

 Z