Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 341 Location: New Zealand
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:04 Post subject: Acorn A4 - blast form the past
Hi guys,
Well I got handed this by the boss man today. In there prime they were state of the art in NZ schools. This particular example was used by admin staff only - not the kids apparently. While on the subject, one of the classes I teach in still has 2 Acorn desktops from around 1992 to 1993! Used on a daily basis, thrashed by god only knows how many kids, the machines just will not die!
This A4 version is stamped with "Designed and Manufactured in Europe, Cambridge, England, 1992.
On the hunt for the power supply which is in amongst a whole pile of vintage compos.
Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 1728 Location: somewere thereabouts
Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 20:20 Post subject:
aaah ya reminding me of school now marky
the old bbc b computer wasnt it _________________ atb kevin
65 vauxhall mokka 1.6cdti 4x4 se
66 vauxhall corsa vxr
Who needs windows when you can poke and peek all night long ??
Anyone remember that futuristic game on the BBC b - "ELITE", where you started with a basic spaceship, and gradually increased your armoury and your bank account. You could become a goody or a pirate depending on which planets you visited etc.. etc..
Sorry, just getting a tad nostalgic _________________
"Tongue-tied and Twisted; just an Earth-bound misfit, I..." - PF LTM # 000002
Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 341 Location: New Zealand
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 22:33 Post subject:
lol, I thought it might strike a chord with you guys
Planning on hunting through the cupboard today to find the power supply / charger for the beast. Not even sure if it works yet - has been sitting in a cupboard since last millenium!
I'll post a couple of pics if I can fire it up _________________ 1996 Mazda B2500
Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 103 Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:53 Post subject:
mbw13 wrote:
lol, I thought it might strike a chord with you guys
Planning on hunting through the cupboard today to find the power supply / charger for the beast. Not even sure if it works yet - has been sitting in a cupboard since last millenium!
I'll post a couple of pics if I can fire it up
Probably not a good comment on Hamilton, and might expose us to comments from jaffas, but I've still got a Sega at home complete with its expansion RAM and disk drive unit - it used an odd sized floppy that was (iirc) slightly larger than the 3.5 inch we all came to love so much.
I guess we've got to do something to occupy the wet weekends.
Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 341 Location: New Zealand
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:41 Post subject:
lol, especially with the "counrty's largest 'P' house" being based in Hams we need all the credit we can get.
What I'm about to say won't help, I know what you mean about those huge floppy disks! We've still got a bunch of them here somewhere - no machine to use them though.
Funny you should mention Sega! I found our old console (Master System II) which hasn't been used since 1995 or something. Still in 100% mint condition and runs the same as it did fresh from the box. _________________ 1996 Mazda B2500
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Herefordshire
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 23:28 Post subject:
LOL, i use to run a Computer repair and build shop in Hereford city center and i believe i still have loads and loads of chips and eproms for that type of machine,, hell as well as a PC i still have my trusty old Amiga1200 (with a 16mb Blizzard fast ram card). Its cool to get into pcs with it because AmiDOS can read the windows programs but the pc does not even know its there, hence you can diagnose quicker than normal diagnostics
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