Acorn Archimedes

On 02/24/2013 09:19 PM, Chris Tofu wrote: I had an A310, A440, A540, A3000, A3010, A3020, A4000 and A5000 (plus a SARPC) - they're capable machines, but for me just not nearly as much fun as Acorn's earlier 8-bitters, and I decided that the cost of shipping them across to the US was too much for the enjoyment I'd get out of them. The main reason I'd want one now is for the 'experience' of the GUI, but I could probably do that via an emulator without losing anything - I don't normally care much for emulators in comparison to the real hardware, but that changes a lot when the real hardware is just a VGA-ish screen, mouse, keyboard and the OS loads quickly from ROM/hard disk. I do still have a Simtec Hydra multi-processor board set, so should perhaps get myself an RPC to put it in one day (it's quirky and "a bit different", so still appeals) and I kept my ARM copro for the BBC micro along with a couple of ARM copros on ISA cards, just in case I ever want to mess around with ARM coding on some real hardware. I *might* still have one of the set-top cable TV boxes which runs RISC OS under the covers - I can't remember if I kept one or not now (I had a vague plan to run one as a remote graphics terminal, but never quite got the tuits together :-) If you're going to buy one, I'd say go for an A540, then you can always run RISCiX on it as well as RISC OS. cheers Jules