31 Mar
2013
31 Mar
'13
11:53 a.m.
The latest addition to the collection
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/acorn-4000.htm
Terry (Tez)
31 Mar
31 Mar
12:03 p.m.
On 03/31/2013 02:53 PM, Terry Stewart wrote:
The latest addition to the collection
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/acorn-4000.htm
Very nice! Those machines are quite rare here. It's nice to see one in
such good condition!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
12:25 p.m.
Very nice! Those machines are quite rare here.
It's nice to see one in
such good condition!
This was from a guy who seemed to be an Acorn collector. He put four of
these machines on our Trade Me auction site. Four New Zealand collectors
(of which I was one) picked up one each. They were all in great condition
apparently.
Terry (Tez)
12:32 p.m.
On 03/31/2013 03:25 PM, Terry Stewart wrote:
Wow. Great score.
I love seeing and reading about these Acorn machines. I'm an embedded
systems developer; I work with ARM processors (mostly ARM7) every day and
really like them. It's cool to see and learn about their heritage.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Very nice!
Those machines are quite rare here. It's nice to see one in
such good condition!
This was from a guy who seemed to be an Acorn collector. He put four of
these machines on our Trade Me auction site. Four New Zealand collectors
(of which I was one) picked up one each. They were all in great condition
apparently. 
2 Apr
2 Apr
8:45 a.m.
On 03/31/2013 02:32 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
I love seeing and reading about these Acorn
machines. I'm an embedded
systems developer; I work with ARM processors (mostly ARM7) every day and
really like them. It's cool to see and learn about their heritage.
You might like this one - it's a first-generation ARM on an ISA card:
http://www.patooie.com/temp/armappisa.jpg
I think that the 40-pin IC in the lower-right is a standard Acorn Tube ULA,
with a bit of glue logic to marry it up to the ISA bus - although it's a
different animal to any of Acorn's other offerings of that era (e.g. it's
not just the ARM eval kit circuit in an ISA form-factor).
The firmware (I had the ROMs out for archiving when I took that photo) is
dated June of '87, which is the same time that the Archimedes was released
to the world; the board was most likely a way of attracting developers to
the platform by making it easy to run ARM code on a PC.
RAM is 4MB, I think, in 32 x 1Mbit parts.
I do have an ARM Evaluation Kit too (the ARM co-processor for the BBC
micro), along with another ARM-based ISA card (this time with a local I/O
controller and expansion connector).
cheers
Jules
10:08 p.m.
On 04/02/2013 11:45 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Oh my now that is awesome, isn't it. Great stuff!
I love
seeing and reading about these Acorn machines. I'm an embedded
systems developer; I work with ARM processors (mostly ARM7) every day and
really like them. It's cool to see and learn about their heritage.
You might like this one - it's a first-generation ARM on an ISA card:
http://www.patooie.com/temp/armappisa.jpg I think that the 40-pin IC in the lower-right is a
standard Acorn Tube ULA,
with a bit of glue logic to marry it up to the ISA bus - although it's a
different animal to any of Acorn's other offerings of that era (e.g. it's not
just the ARM eval kit circuit in an ISA form-factor).
The firmware (I had the ROMs out for archiving when I took that photo) is
dated June of '87, which is the same time that the Archimedes was released to
the world; the board was most likely a way of attracting developers to the
platform by making it easy to run ARM code on a PC.
RAM is 4MB, I think, in 32 x 1Mbit parts.
I do have an ARM Evaluation Kit too (the ARM co-processor for the BBC micro),
along with another ARM-based ISA card (this time with a local I/O controller
and expansion connector).
Great stuff! Let me know if you ever want to part with anything early-ARM.
(I sure wouldn't if I were you, but I had to suggest it!)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
31 Mar
31 Mar
9:48 p.m.
On 01/04/2013, at 5:53 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz> wrote:
The latest addition to the collection
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/acorn-4000.htm
I'm jealous - I had an earlier Archimedes on my desk at work for a couple of weeks
back when they were new but couldn't convince the distributer to sell it at a
reasonable price - in the end I got a Mac Iicx running A/UX which cost five times as much
but that's another story.
Must see if I can track something like this down to add to my collection...
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
1 Apr
1 Apr
4:05 a.m.
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Subject: Re: An Acorn 4000 checks in
On 01/04/2013, at 5:53 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>
wrote:
The "RiscOS North West User Group" still meets in the UK
http://www.ronwug.org/ForthcomingMeetings
(I am not a member but the Radio Club I belong to uses the same
building)
Dave
G4UGM
The latest addition to the collection
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/acorn-4000.htm
I'm jealous - I had an earlier Archimedes on my desk at work for a
couple of weeks back when they were new but couldn't convince the
distributer to sell it at a reasonable price - in the end I got a Mac
Iicx running A/UX which cost five times as much but that's another
story.
Must see if I can track something like this down to add to my
collection...
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
6:19 a.m.
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Dave wrote:
Don't forget that you can run RiscOS on the Raspberry Pi now as well.
g.
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On 01/04/2013, at 5:53 AM, Terry Stewart
<terry at webweavers.co.nz> wrote:
The "RiscOS North West User Group" still meets in the UK
http://www.ronwug.org/ForthcomingMeetings
(I am not a member but the Radio Club I belong to uses the same building)
The latest addition to the collection
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/acorn-4000.htm
I'm jealous - I had an earlier Archimedes on my desk at work for a couple
of weeks back when they were new but couldn't convince the distributer to
sell it at a reasonable price - in the end I got a Mac Iicx running A/UX
which cost five times as much but that's another story.
Must see if I can track something like this down to add to my collection...
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
2 Apr
2 Apr
6:37 a.m.
On 02/04/2013, at 12:19 AM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
Don't forget that you can run RiscOS on the Raspberry Pi now as well.
On my list of things to do with my Pi.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
1 Apr
1 Apr
9:30 a.m.
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>wrote:
The latest addition to the collection
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/acorn-4000.htm
Terry (Tez)
Fantastic! Such a historically important and interesting machine. Hope to
see a video? :-)
Nice acquisition, Tez.
- Earl
5:03 p.m.
Yes, video at some stage Earl. It will be a while though. I'm about 1/2
through going in roughly chronological order. Also other things are now
competing for my time.
Next up is the IBM XT, then the Epson, QX-10.
Terry (Tez)
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Earl Evans <earl at retrobits.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Terry Stewart
<terry at webweavers.co.nz
wrote:
The latest addition to the collection
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/acorn-4000.htm
Terry (Tez)
Fantastic! Such a historically important and interesting machine. Hope to
see a video? :-)
Nice acquisition, Tez.
- Earl
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