What's New

 19 June 2008: Added Voltmace Delta 14 joystick, Solidisk EFS and Solidisk Fourmeg Expansion and manual. Solidisk Fourmeg badge added to Ephemera. Added IFEL A5000 8MB Upgrade and The Serial Port Floptical Interface to 32bit Upgrades.

 18 June 2008: Added Voltmace A/D User Port Interface., Watford Electronics ZIF socket and Watford Electronics Beeb Video Digitiser and manual.

 16 June 2008: Corrected Risc PC and A7000 pages, added a 2 slice Risc PC 700 adn added, Acorn AEH62 NIC to Networks and Risc PC 4 slot backplane and Risc PC feet to 32 bit upgrades. Used the latest version of !Sick to get the ARM710 and ARM7500 performance figures and updated the Performance page. Added Beebug Archimedes Ethernet card, Watford Electronics BBC User I/O card, watford Electronics Hard Disk podule, HCCS A3010 Ultimate expansion.

 15 June 2008 Updated Risc PC and A7000 pages.

11 June 2008: Added A440 (4M) Circuit Diagram, A500 second processor circuit diagram, BBC Micro circuit diagram, Master technical drawings and Medusa ARM610 second processor circuit diagram. Added APP890 New Generation RiscPC to Brochures

 10 June 2008: Added APP686, 687, 746, 751, 787, 797, 859 ,868, 873, 874 & 919 to Brochures

 8 June 2008: Added Acorn Special Solutions News 1, 2, 3, 6 & 8 to Documents

 7 June 2008: Added Acorn Sales News 110-130 to Documents. Added APP588, APP599 & APP681 to Brochures

 6 June 2008: Added Acorn Sales News 90-109 to Documents.

 5 June 2008: Added Acorn Sales News 54-89 to Documents. Tidied Documents a bit.

4 June 2008: Added ISV Department News Nos. 14, 15 & 17. Added Developers' Disc No 36 to Software. Added A3000 and RiscPC publicity photos. Added A500 Sales Tips to Brochures. Added Acorn Sales News 35-53 to Documents.

 3 June 2008: Regenerated PDFs from Sept and Oct 2007. Added ISV Department News No. 10, 12 & 13 to ISV & Developer's newsletters.

 2 June 2008: Added Acorn Communicator FileStore Manager's Guide to documents. Regenerated all PDFs scanned in Nov 2007.

 29 May 2008: Regenerated all PDFs, Acorn and Third Party, scanned back to Dec 2007. More will follow in time.

 28 May 2008: Regenerated PDFs scanned in May 2008 with images at 300dpi (instead of 150dpi) to improve quality, but it does increase file sizes by up to 400% depending on how many images there are. Added Acorn Risc PC 486 Card User Guide.

 27 May 2008: Added the Acorn A500 Hardware Guide and Risc PC 600 CD Release Note to Documents.

 22 May 2008: Added Acorn Master Series Hardware Specification to Documents.

 21 May 2008: Added the Acorn ADFS User Guide and Duet - Medusa 2nd ARM Processor Functional Specification to Documents.

18 May 2008: Added Acorn Econet Advanced User Guide, Acornsoft 40/80 Track Disc Configuration, Akhter User Friendly Discs & Computer Concepts ROM Fitting Instructions to Documents  

 15 May 2008: Added the Disc Filing System User Guide with addendum for 1770 DFS to documents.

 12 May 2008: Added the Econet level 2/3 file system user guide to Documents.

 11 May 2008: Added the Acorn Winchester Disc Filing System User Guide, Joysticks and Speech Upgrade Instructions to documents and updated the BBC Micro page.

 6 May 2008: Added the Disc System User Guide and updated the BBC Micro page to include Disc and Speech systems.

 5 May 2008: Added Acorn Speech System User Guide to Documents.

4 May 2008: Added Winchester Disc 110 and 130 Service Manual and 1770 Disc Interface Upgrade Kit Fitting Instructions to Documents.  

 2 May 2008: Added the Mertec Compact Companion to 8bit Upgrades.

 1 May 2008: Added Acorn IEEE488 Interface to 8bit Upgrades. Added the BBCSoft Advanced Teletext System User Guide and the Mertec Compact Companion Fitting Instructions and Specification.

 30 April 2008: Added Acorn Teletext System User Guide and BBC IEEE488 Interface (downloaded from Intelligent Interfaces website). Sad to see that Intelligent Interfaces ceased trading on 31 March 2008.

18 April 2008: Added Acorn Teletext Adapter to 8bit Upgrades.  

 17 April 2008: Added Acorn A3010 Welcome Guide and Prestel Adapter Service Manual to Documents.

 16 April 2008: Added Acorn Prestel Adapter to 8bit Upgrades.

15 April 2008: Added A500 sceond processor to 8bit upgrades.  

 10 April 2008: Added LTM Portable to Computers.

 9 April 2008: Added RISC OS 4 Rubic Cube, Beebug Archimedes mouse mat, Acorn 32bit badge, Acorn RiscPC badge and PRESTEL badge to Ephemera. Added A3010 with ARM250 CPU.

8 April 2008: Added Pace DSL4000 to after Acorn.  

 7 April 2008: Added NetProducts NetStation to After Acorn and the User Guide and QuickStart to Docs..

 5 April 2008: Reorganised RISC OS After Acorn pages (including Advantage 6, Castle, Micordigital, RiscStation and Xemplar). Added Iyonix.

 3 April 2008: Reorganised the Domesday System page.

 2 April 2008: Reogranised the Master pages.

 31 March 2008: Reorganised the Communicator page

 29 March 2008: Reorganised the ABC page. Various minor corrections and spelling mistakes corrected. SAdded Contributor's page to acknowledge people who have donated stuff to Chris's Acorns.

 27 March 2008: Lots of updates to the BBC pages added in some more examples.

26 March 2008: Added a second BBC Model B Issue 3. Added Acorn RISC Machine poster to Ephemera.  

25 March 2008: Reogranised the Reuters Board and Electron pages.  

 24 March 2008: Reorganised the BBC Micro pages.

 4 March 2008: Added a number of reviews from Personal Computer World, scanned before I threw out the magazines to clear some space.
My Canon CanoScan N650U has broken and is no longer recognised by my PC so I have replaced it with a Canon CanoScan 4400F which was first used on these scans.

 29 February 2008: Added a number of reviews from Practical Computing, scanned before I chucked the magazines out to clear some room.

 16 February 2008: Reorganised the Acorn Atom and Busicomputer Prophet pages.

 14 February 2008: Added Sysatem 3 pictures and custom serial card.

 12 February 2008: Added brochures for Acorn 6809 card, System 4 computer, Acorn Universal Interface, AcornVDU card and System 2. Added FLEX for Acorn 6809 Systems. Added an incomplete Acorn System Computer catalog and Acorn Memory Board Technical Manual

 11 February 2008: Added Acorn 6809 User's Manual and Acorn 80 Character VDU Card manual to documents.

 3 February 2008: Added System 1 User's Manual and Errata. Update 6809, Econet, fdc and 8K Static RAM card withexamples from my System3.

2 February 2008: Added System 4 pictures.  

 1 February 2008: Update 1MHz 6502 CPU and Acorn Econet. Added Acorn bus extender, Acorn versatile interface bus, Acorn 40 column VDU interface and Acorn 8K static RAM eurocards.

 31 january 2008: Added 2MHz 6502, 80x25 VDU interface, Econet Node and updated 32K DRAM and Fdc entries with details from the System5 and the Cioontrol Universal descriptions.

28 January 2008: Updated and corrected section on System Computers . Added System 5 details. 

 20 January 2008: Added Acorn A4 Welcome Guide.

 13 January 2008: Added the technical drawings from the Technical Reference Manuals for the A3000, A3010, A3020, A4, A4000, A5000, A500 & R200, RiscPC and A680.

 9 January 2008: Added 11 Acorn product brochures. Linked A4, A3020 & A4000 product brochures to the computer page.

8 January 2008: Reorganised the A3010, A3020 and A4000 pages. Added Archimedes A500 and R200 Service Manual technical drawings, had to pay to get them scanned because I can't scan A1 and A2 pages. Added BBC Microcomputer Serviice Manual Oct 85. Removed MUG Xmas show banner from Home Page.

 17 December 2007: Added the A3010, A3020 and A4000 Module Level Service Manual.

 15 December 2007: Added the A5000 Module Level Service Manual and Dealer Test Discs added to Software.

 13 December 2007: Added the Archimedes 500 and Acorn R200 Service Manual

6 December 2007: Added the A3000 Service Manual to Documents /Acorn/manuals 

 3 December 2007: Added the A400/1 & R140 Service Manual

 21 November 2007: Added the Acorn SCSI Expansion Card user Guide to Documents/Acorn/Manuals

 20 November 2007: Added APP678 PiscPC to Brochures.

 14 November 2007 Added the R260, R225, A540 Installation Guide. Added APP472 A3020 & APP474 A4000 to Brochures

 11 November 2007: Updated A5000 & A4 pages. Added MUG Xmas show to home page.

 10 November 2007: A3000 Welcome Guide added.

 9 November 2007: Added Archimedes Welcome guide (Arthur) and Archimedes Welcome Guide (RISC OS 2), A300 Module level Service manual and Componet Level Supplement. Added APP227 A3000, APP230 A400/1, APP301 A540 and APP390 A5000 brochures and updated brochure list and editions and dates. Started major tidy up of Computer section starting with the Archimedes section (A500, A300, A400, A400/1 & A540) and A3000. This will contiue over next few months untli all Computer sections have the same layout and style.

 1 November 2007: Added 3 Acorn Training documents from ca. 1990: Introduction to Archimedes, Archimedes and A3000 servicing and RISC Technology Module.

 31 October 2007: Added Archimedes Welcome Guide (for Arthur) and Archimedes Welcome Guide (for RISC OS 2) to Acorn Manuals.

21October 2007: Added Installation instructions for Lingenuity SCSI Interface card to documents

 18 October 2007: Added Watford Electronics BBC A3000 I/O Card user Guide.

30 September 2007: Added DTSoftware IDE interface, IFEL ARM.

 27 September 2007: Added Wild Vision A3000 Expansion Box, updated Watford Electronics Scanner interface

 24 September 2007: Added Nidd Valley Digimouse and RH Electronics Light Pen..

 23 September 2007: Added BBC Micro Car badge to Ephemera, Morley Electronics User I2C Analogue mini-podule and Cumana IDE to Panasonic CDROM I/F to 32bit upgrades.

9 September 2007: Added Conputer Concepts TV Tuner Installation, Tuning and Configuration manual

6 September 2007: Added Conputer Concepts TV Tuner, Acorn PhotoQV, Oregan Developments WebCam.

 3 September 2007: Added Commotion User Analogue mini-podule, Updated Simtec A5000 2MB RAM upgrade. Added Cumana SLCD podule. Updated Computer Concepts Laser Direct and XOB TeleCard. Added EMR Sampler 8 expansion card.

2 September 2007: Added Opus D/Dos AI disc controller., Deltronics User Analogue port mini-podule. Updated the HCCS User Analogue mini-podule. Added SJResearch A3020 nexus interface. Added Atomwide Ethernet V podule and Watford Electronics Apex Control Card..

28 July 2007: Added Hybrid Technology manuals, converted to PDFs from scan on 8bs.com DVD.

24 July 2007: Added Simtec USB 1.1 interface, Watford Electronics A300 1MB RAM, GCC RAMEX13 user guide and Irlam 24i16.

21 July 2007: Added Atomwide *Meg RAM Upgrade and HCCS A5000 Mitsumi CD Interface.

20 July 2007: Added Atomwide 3 port serial expansion, CJE Micros A3000 2/4MB upgrade, Morley Analogue and User interface and manual, Watford Electronics Master cartridge.

18 July 2007: Added The Serial Port Joystick Interface with manual and s/w, CCS A5000 4MB Upgrade, Morley 16bit SCSI Interface.

 15 July 2007: Added Acorn "Acorn at heart" stickers to Ephemera, FocusIT A3000 Internal Expansion added to 32bit Upgrades.

14 July 2007: Acorn RiscPC700 poster added to Ephemera

1 July 2007: Acorn Plus 3 user Guide added to Documents.

20 June 2007: Acorn Network Computer User Guide added to Documents.

19 June 2007: Added A3000 Welcome Letter, Special Access Upgradee pack release Note, Fitting an Econet module, SCSI & CDROM Filing System Release Note, RISC OS £ Release Note (Version 3.10) and The CD-ROM Filing System User Guide to Documents.

17 June 2007 : Added Acorn "Duet" ARM610 2nd processor. Update IFEL A3000 4MB upgrade. Added SID User Guide and SID Reference Guide to Brochures. AKF11 user guide, Acorn PhotoCD Sample Application, The Learning Curve "Getting Started", User Port / MIDI expansion card for A3000, Acorn MIDI Release Note (Oct 89) and Acorn MIDI Implementation Chart added to Documents.

16 June 2007: Added Acorn Lapel badge and Acornsoft Monsters badge to Ephemera. Acorn ARM610 CPU updated.

11 June 2007: Added Acorn AEH72 Access A3000 & AEH75 Access+ A500 to Network. Added PhotoQV to Software

9 June 2007: Added Opus disc manual to documents.

3 June 2007: Added Opus Challenger 3 to 8bit Upgrades.

2 June 2007: Updated Links  page. Added Hybrid Music 2000 MIDI interface to 8bit Ugrades

29 May 2007: ROOL Mouse Mat added to Ephemera . Peartree Master cartridge and Hybrid Music 5000 added to 8bit Upgrades. Watford BBC Micro ROM Paging System manual added to documents.

28 May 2007: Added Bebug Master Modem to 8-bit upgrades and the User Guide to Documents

26 May 2007: Added Master Service Manual

8 May 2007: Added Acorn 65C102 User Guide, Master Series battery Unit Issue 1 & 3 to Documents.

7 May 2007: Added Acorn Master ROM cartridge, Care 2 ROM and 4 ROM Cartridges, Viglen Sideways ROM Cartridge System and Mastr cartridge Adaptor.

16 April 2007: Added Aleph1 PC Expansion Cards User Guide Issue 5 to Documents.

13 April 2007: Cumana Disk Drive Guide Electron added to documents

11 April 2007: Acorn ANF03 Data Recorder, Cumana floppy disk system for the Electron and First Byte Joystick Interface.

10 April 2007: Acorn Electron Plus 1 User Guide added

9 April 2007: Added Slogger RomBox Plus, Vine Micros Master OS Overlay board, ACP Advanced Rom Mk1 Adaptor, Peartree Master RAM/ROM Board, CJE A3000 2nd MB, Beebug A3000 Super Ran v1.0, i3 EtherLan 100, i3 EtherLan 200, ALF03 Data recorder, ALA13 Electron Plus 3, Clan sweatshirt and ART mousemat. Also some related documentation.

2 April 2007: Added Wakefield show 2007 banner. Added Acorn Z80 second processor User Guide. and ARM Evaluation System User Guide.

27 March 2007: Added Computer Concepts Rom/RAM podule guide to Documents.

 8 March 2007: Added MCS Connect 32 SCSI, Atomwide serial expansion card, ACE Joy Connect, Atomwide Ether1 minipodule, Simtec A3010 4MB upgrade, Watford Scanner card and various typo corrections.  

5 March 2007: Added Microvitec Cub and Acorn AKF65 mnitor manuals. Added Watford 32k RAM card manual. changed layout of Acorn User and PCW magazine articles.

27 February 2007: Tided up the BBC page, corrected the AcornOS page and added some stuff to Ephemora.

9 February 2007: Added PRES AP3, The Serial Port Turbo SCSI Adaptor and updated Acorn AKA32 SCSI adaptor.

8 February 2007: Added PRES Plus1 User Guide, Slogger Electron Expansion 2.0 ROM, Slogger Click, Electron Expansion and Tape to Disk User Guides.

7 February 2007: Added Electron Service manual, Plus1, Pipedream4 key fob.

 6 February 2007: Added PMS B2P documentation and Technomatic TurboSCSI.

 31 January 2007: More Acorn User articles added. Also added PMS B2P-6502 2nd processor and Acorn Econet socket box.

 27 January 2007: Update information on Reuters board and split into seperate page.

17 January 2007: Added Watford Electronics Co Pro Adaptor.

16 January 2007: Technomatic Multiform Z80 second processor added. Acorn Music 500 added.

15 January 2007: Added some more Acorn User articles

13 January 2007: Completed the reorganisation of the site took longer than expected. I hope it is now easier to navigate. Also started adding magazine reviews from Acorn User (thanks to John Cartmell & Acorn Pubishing) and Personal Computer World.

10 January 2007: Significant reorganisaton of the site, aimed to make finding things more consistent.

30 December 2006: Added scan of ACW443 Service manual, it has taken over a week to scan and OCR nearly 200 A4 pages including circuit diagrams and parts lists. I would be doing another similar sized job in the near future! Thanks to Ben Harris for the original.

24 December 2006: Added some more Brochures (contributed by James Reed)

 22 December 2006: Added an Acorn OS page with details of all the OSs that I know that Acorn used. Linked Panos and RISC iX pages to them, seperating the OS details from the hardware.

 18 December 2006: Added Cambridge Co-processor and 32016 2nd processor.

 10 December: Added Cambridge Co-processor User Guide

30 October: Added Acorn 6502 second processor Service manual. 

 25 October: Added Torch 68000 boars, Watford 12ROM board, Acorn 6502 2nd processor User Guide.

22 October: Added Torch Z80 Disc Pack and manuals.

 12 September: Added Millipede Prisma 3

29 August: Updated the links section and added the Atom disc pack to the Atom page.

27 August: Added Busicomputers Prophet2 and Prophet3 to the Atom section.

22 August: Updated the Acorn Atom entry, added Aconsoft Atom Catalog, added Audio Computers 64K RAM card for Atom

20 August: Added Busicomputers Prophet2, Atom calc ROM board and Acorn Atom Technical manual. Split System & Atom into seperate sections.

18th August: BT Merlin M2105 added under Electron

17th August: Added A440/1, Acorn Bitstik, Oak Worra Winnie

14th August: Scanned and added Acorn brochures up to APP227 which announced the A3000 and added links from some of the computers to the brochures. Stopped because I got bored. I'll pick it up again in a month or two.
Added more hardware upgrades: IFEL A310 4MB RAM upgrade, CC Impression dongle, RAMAMP sideways RAM/ROM board and instructions, Watford RAM/ROM board & manual, A3000 4MB RAM and 13 ROM boards, NetProducts RC1, Computer Village Memory expansion & manual, Aconsoft Magic Mushrooms badge, Acorn 3B2 SCSI Streamer and Sprow's ARM7 co-processor.

17th July: Added RISC OS ROM upgrade instructions., Aleph1 2nd Processor and ARM3 instructions & Morley SCSI Utilities. Starting adding Acorn advertising brochures to documents, later they will be cross referenced to the item in the collection.

 16th July: Added Customer Service newsletters No. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 & 22. Added a number of Acorn discs to Software. Added Acorn Education News issue 2 & 6 and Higher Education News Issue 2. Added to Guarantee and Warrantee cards.

 14th July: Added Customer Service news Nos 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 &12

10th July: Added App Notes 206, 207, 223 and 276. Added Customer Service News 1 & 2 and CS Discs 14, 15 & 18

8th July: added Acorn Engineering News issues 1 &2 from 1987 to documents.

 3rd July: added Watford Electronics A3000 dual floppy adaptor, Morley Electronics Teletext Adaptor.

 2nd July: Added John Kortink's GoMMC and EMR BBC MIDI interface, updated HCCS Vision Digitiser and i3 EtherLAN500,

1 July 2006: Added master Compact Service manual to Documents.  

 24 June 2006: Added AKF80 manual, Acorn PC x86 Card User Guide, Acorn DNFS instruction booklet and CJE Micro's ARM3 fitting instructions to Documents.

 17 June 2006: Added BBC Disc Test System manual, some Guarantee/Warranty cards. BBC FIT instruction manual added.

 16 June 2006: Added RISC OS 3.00, 3.11, 3.60 and 3.7 release notes and verious other scanned Acorn manual and leaflets.

12 June 2006: Finished scanning Developers' newsletters. Added PC Exchange discs and user guide.

 3June 2006: Started adding Acorn Developers' Newsletters to Documents, Nos. 18-25 scanned and added. Also Developers' Newsletter Discs added to Software.

 29 May 2006: Added Acorn AGA31 PC card and manual, Baildon Electronics AnDi Oddule, Calligraph ArcLaser, Irlam Instruments i-Mage podule, Oak Solutions A3000 Internal expansion, HCCS A3000 SCSI Interface, JGHartson BBC IDE controller, Slogger Click

 22 May 2006: Added VTI SCSI manual, Morley SCSI manual, Yellowstone Mozart, Computer Concepts ROM/RAM podule, IFEL A3000 4MB RAM upgrade and Wild Vision 242/243 prototype podule.

 18 May 2006: Added APDL Blitz IdeA I/F, IFEL 2MB A5000 RAM upgrades, White Wind Logic Tele-Card

17 May 2006: Added A9home and completed the Advantage 9 page.

14 May 2006: Added Beebug A3000 1MB upgrade, Watford Electronics A310 2MB upgrade, 40MB SCSI hard disc, Digitiser, A5000 2MB Upgrade. Scanner I/F and scanner, HCCS HiVision digiter, Vertical twist SCSI I/F, ROMBO Vidi-ArchimedesDigitiser. Updated , Lingenuity SCSI I/F, WE IDE I/F

 24 April 2006: Added AVIE 2 slot backplane, Beebug VIDC Expander, Castle A30x0 IDE interface, Cumana 8 bit SCSI Interface, Simtec A300/A400 4-8MB RAM upgrade, TechnoLOG 4 slot backplane, Technomatic 5.25" disc interface, Vertical Twist 8bit SCSI & User port interface.

 23 April 2006: Added Computer Concepts Eagle M2 User Guide, Simtec A5000 RAM Upgrade, Simtec 16bit IDE, Wild Vision Hawk V9 and Hawk V10. Updated Simtec RiscPC VRAM.

 21 April 2006: Added Acorn A5000 RAM Upgrade, Computer Concepts Eagle M2, Calligraph Laser printer interface, Castle 32/16 bit SCSI II Interface. updated The Serial Por dual serial board, Computer Concepts Colour Card Gold and Chroma 300.

 17 April 2006: Added Solidisk Sideways RAM manual, Risc Developments IDE Hard Disc System User Guide.

16 April 2006: Added Computer Concepts Lark + user guide, Intelligent Interfaces Dual RS423 card, Oak SCSI (update), Risc Developments IDE, Wild Vision Chroma 300 + User Guide, Yellowstone RapIDE32 (update), Zeridajh Video Digitiser, HCCS SCSI User Guide.  

 11 April 2006: Added Wild Vision Midi Max, Midi Max II and Chroma 300, added The Serial Port, Dual Serial board and High Speed Serial card, Ashiv 8 port serial card and Computer Concepts scanlight video 256.

9 April 2006: Added eesox SCSI2 manual and SCSIDirector disc.  

 8 April 2006: Added HCCS A3000 Ultimate Expansion and CDROM micro podule. Added HCCS User & Analogue port and Ultimate CDROM User Guides.

 7 April 2006: Added Simtec Hydra, A3000 Ram upgrades, and various Simtec installation instructions added OAK A3000 RAM upgrade, and Acorn 32016 2nd processor card. later added Acorn Scarf and badge to Ephermera, prototype StrongARM CPU and Digithurst Microeye to 32bit upgrades.

 1 April 2006: Added Communicator User Guide to documents.

19 March 2006: Added Arabic Master Compact and reorganised BBC Master page. Added Pineapple Digitiser v1.01 and Armadillo A448 Issue 5. together with armadillo sample software.

12th March: Added Pineapple Digitiser manual.

 11th March: Added another 8 badges to Ephemera. Added Peartree ROM expansion, Acorn ALA32 RISC OS 3 hardware upgrade and Powertec SCSI card. Also added 2 pictures of my car in the About section. Split Upgrades into 8bit and 32bit.

 4th March 2006: Added Nexus DiscServer Manual and Nexus Utilities disc

3rd March 2006: Added Acorn Filestore E01S and E40S and Acorn X25 Gateway. Also added some Ephemera, 5 Acornsoft Badges and 2 Acorn mugs!

24 February 2006: Added MDFS, a selection of SJ Research Brochures, some Econet manuals, re-organised the Networking section into separate Econet, Ethernet bits etc. I think its Acorn FileStore next. and then Econet will be finished!!

 6 February 2006: Added to start of the network section of the site, it covers Econet, Ethernet and a bit of Nexus. Lots more still to do. Also various other upgrades and corrections.

 30 December 2005: Added the A680 to the Unix section.

 19 December 2005: Added FastNC description and pictures. Added DeskLitedescription and pictures, possibly Acorns last reference design/prototype from 1998. Added Acorn publicity phots for Phoebe, Concord, Stork, Newspad & STB22.

6 November 2005: Amend RiscPC600 description because I have upgrade the machine, added APDL Turbo StrongARm, Castle EtherSCSI and Irlam Instruments RiscTV. Linked in HCCS !SCSIMgr and hivison digitiser on software page.

21 October 2005: Added, Acorn AKA15 Midid upgrade, Eesox fast sci2 card, ANT tshirt, Netproducts v34 modem, DesignIT EtherLan600, Morley cached SCSI, Morley ST506 interface& Acorn Access documentation.

16 October 2005: Added i3 EtherLan User Guide and some Acorn technical notes.  

15 October 2005: Added I3 EtherLan 500 and EtherLan600 plus i3 documentation & cardtype utility.

 9 October 2005: Added Deltronics Analog & user port podule, Lingenuity SCSI podule, ICS Whisper fan quietner, IFEL A300 backplane and RISC OS 3 ROM carrier, Simtec RISC OS 3 ROM carrier, Acorn AKA25 Ethernet podule

 2 October 2005: Added EMR MIDI 4, HCCS IDE I/F Bus, HCCS Vision, HCCS Ultimate A5000 and micro podules.

 1 October 2005: Added BE HD IDE interface, updated Cumana 16/32 bit sSCSI, added Cumana 5.25" floppy disc interface, EMR MIDI 4 interface.

 25 September 2005: Added Acorn Communicator and included some HiRes pictures.

16 September 2005: added Computer Concepts Laser Direct and Laser Direct Issue 2

 13 September 2005: Added Castle EuroIDE and CC Faxpack.

 12 September 2005: Shut the old ntlworld site and deleted from server, left redirect page. Added ANT NIC, Armadillo A448, CJE Micros A300 2/4MB upgrade. *** Site is 1 year old today***.

 11 Septerber 2005: Added, ACE MIDI, Acorn AEH70, Aleph1 ARM3s, PC Expansion cards, Simtec ARM3 FPA, and VRAM

 9 September 2005: Added Acorn ROM, Ethernet and MIDI podules.

8 September 2005: Added some more mouse mats, carrier bags and a keyfob to Ephemera

 6 September 2005: More Acorn CPUs, CJE AMD586 PCcard, another HCCS IDE card added.

 2 September 2005: A bit of restructuring of the pages and links.

 31 August 2005: Added Acorn A300, A410 440 680 & A5000 backplanes  and ART Toolkit. Also Acorn FPA support disc and installation instructions.

 28 August 2005: Added details of ARM610 'Spinner', Wild Vision ATM, HCCS HardCard & Vision Digitiser, IFEL A3000 4MB Upgrade, Simtec A3020 & A4000 2MB Extra RAM, Simtec A30x0 IDE Interface along with documentation and software.

25 August 2005: RiscPC prototype (ex Uniqueway) added.

 23 August 2005: Computer Concepts Colourcard documentation and software added.

 21 August 2005: HCCS Ide User Guide, Argo Zip Driver manual, ICS ideA Hard Disc Interface manual and various Acorn leaflets scanned and added to Documents.

 17 August 2005: Pocket Book pages linked and pictures etc added.

 8 August 2005: 2 SJResearch MDFS brochures added to Documents.

 5 July 2005: Morley User, MIDI Analogue interface, Acorn PAL TV Adaptor, EMR SMPTE Podule with documentation added. Also Acornsoft Rocketship badge.

 1 July 2005: Acorn ROM Podule Guide, I/O Podule Guide, Archimedes (Arthur) Welcome disc and RISC OS 2 Application discs 1 & 2, Support disc and Extras disc added.

 28June 2005: Some BBC updates:Opus DDOS and W2791 Disc Controller, andATPL Sidewise+ . Also Aleph1 486 PC Expansion card.

25 June 2005: Added more HCCS mini-podules, FocusIT IDE mini-podule, ICS ideA minipodules etc and some tidying up of the layout

 16 June 2005: Added Watford Electronics BBC User IO card, and Computer Concepts Mitsubishi MH216CG scanner.

 10 June 2005: Added some addition podule and memory cards: Aleph1 PC card for A4000/A30x0, Acorn ACA53 PCcard, Commotion MIDI, Analogue and Userport minipodule, Cumana A300 1MB upgrade and may be some more.

 5 June 2005: Added Castle 8bit SCSI interface, HCCS 1MB RAM, Clan tshirt(!) and Monsters badge. I have got an A680 to document but this will take some time to complete, in particular scanning the TRM ...

 27 May 2005: pictures of the Bush Internet Surf Set models added under Pace and the page tidied up.

 25 May 2005: A4 added, some reorganisation and better links for long pages, a bit or general tidying and renaming. Deleted all and reloaded yesterday to remove obsolete files from ISP.

 15 May 2005: RiscPC ACB25 with RISC OS 3.50 added

 10 May 2005: Xemplar Matrix NC added

 8 May 2005: Added NetStation details and pictures and Phoebe specification

 3 May 2005: Added pictures and details of the Stork

 24 April 2005: Various items added to the upgrade section.

 22 April 2005: Online Media STB2 added

19 April 2005: A5000 alpha version pictures added. Also Atomwide parallel SCSI adaptor with installation manual and support software.  

16 April 2005: Added Acorn MEU to the Upgrades and Expansions section and added more A5000 detail .

 13 April 2005: Added various upgrades from the A5000 and elsewhere.

12 April 2005: Added A5000 and photographs

 10th April 2005: Added some mug shots!

 3 April 2005: Acorn Application Notes upoaded, well as many as I can find to date!

30 March 2005: Add sections for Upgrades and expansions and added an initial list of suppliers and some of the existing upgrades installed in my computers.

 28 March 2005: Created framework for Acorn documents and software. Loaded some existing documents and the Oak SCSI manual.

 25 March 2005: A440 Service Manual Diagrams added to the A440 Service manual as a seperate download.

5 March 2005: A440 Service Manual added (under A440), PANOS Guide to Operations and BBC BASIC manuals added under Acorn Cambridge Workstation

 21 Feb 2005: added A4000 pictures and specifications

 6 Feb 2005: added A3020 pictured and corrected various typos.

 23 Jan 2005: added A3010 and pictures, some minor corrections.

 22 Jan 2005: added pictures of A3000

 10 Jan 2005: updated URL for Philip Banks Full Acorn Machine List

 4 Jan 2005: pictures of second A420/1 and A540 added.

 3 Jan 2005: A420/1 pictures added, RISC OS versions added.

 31 Dec 2004: Unix page updated and corrected with information from Andrew Wickham. A540 pictures added and details updated.

 29 Dec 2004: Pictures of RiscPC600 added, added Acorn Webring link, added pictures of second RiscPC700.

 26 Dec 2004: After a long pause due to lots of "work". Added What is an Acorn Computer?

 20 Nov 2004: Added BBC Model A Issue 2 and some minor error corrections

 14 Nov 2004: Added RiscPC 700 photos

 8 Nov 2004: Added product codes to most system from the old Acorn catalogues and price lists. Started tidying up the after Acorn section.

 5 Nov 2004: Added German BBC Micro and pictures, corrected some minor errors

 4 Nov 2004: A7000 & A7000+ pictures added

31 Oct 2004: Added model numbers to the BBC Micro and Master, these come from the old Acorn price lists. Most of the RiscPC and A7000 page complete, needs photographs to complete. Updated wanted list.

 15 Oct 2004: Lots of spelling and typos corrected. Layout improved for pictures. BBC Model A added.

 12 Oct 2004: Added section on A440. Took a bit of time as the old MFM hard disc decided to play up and I had to archive it and reformat. Then the monitor I use broke ... But all's well now.

 24 Sept 2004: Added section on Archimedes, A500 and A310 loaded so far.

19 Sept 2004: Corrected the Meta Data which caused a problem in Fresco.

 18 Sept 2004: Added some Cats.

 16 Sept 2004: Added new section on the BBC Master AIV & Domesday Project.

14 Sept 2004: Created this What's New page. Updated the Home page with details of scanned documents. Added the OCRed text documents from the BBC Computer Literacy Project to the BBC page. Added OCR'ed PDFs of the Master Series and Master 512 leaflets to the Master page. Added pictures to the Master Compact.

12 Sept 2004: Added pictures and updated the Master 512 description

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