Acorn RiscPC 600 (OT - only 5 years old)

----- Original Message ----- From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu> | | The Acorn has some interesting ancestors which are also neat machines, also | don't get that much press, and are probably _on_ topic. The BBC Model B is | the most popular of those but there are some others. | I had assumed that there was a BBC connection somewhere as the command line help system mentions BBC BASIC among the available subjects. I found the commmand line interface 'by accident' simply pressing all of the non alpha keys in turn, F12 scrolled the desktop up by one line and a * prompt appeared so as a first guess I typed 'help' and found what appears to be quite a comprehensive help system. The only trouble is, I can't find a way back to the desktop without resetting it :(. Thanks to all those who replied, I will try searching around Usenet and the web at work today. I only got the machine last night so I haven't had time for much research yet and I though Classiccmp was a good place to start. The processor is an ARM610 for those who mentioned the alternatives. Regards Pete