Acorn Computers

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Intelligently designed systems from Cambridge, England

I was lucky enough to be one of the generation of Brits that were taught BBC Basic at school (well, I taught myself, years before we even got to it in the classrooms ;-) . Back then in the 1980's, computers were seen as things that everyone could easily learn to use and actually write programs on for their own projects and enjoyment, as it should be. The BBC Micro was a great step along that road, and was brought into education in association with the BBC. This fine machine made Acorn famous and is fondly remembered by many of my generation. Sadly their future products such as the Archimedes series, while employing cutting edge 32-bit RISC technology, didn't sell so well in a market infested with cheap Personal Computers as Microsoft took over. Acorn still lives on in the form of ARM (Advanced RISC Machines), which power many embedded devices in use today such as mobile phones.