jameswoodcockAug 27, 2023

Acorn Electron - An Unexpected £20 Dirty Treasure - Pixel Refresh

Dive into the world of Acorn Computers! A £20 discovery, as I journey through my Acorn Electron restoration and history. #electron #acorn #restoration #retrogaming

https://www.pixelrefresh.com/acorn-electron-an-unexpected-20-dirty-treasure/

Acorn Electron - An Unexpected £20 Dirty Treasure - Pixel Refresh

Dive into the world of Acorn Computers! A £20 discovery, as I journey through my Acorn Electron restoration and history.

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Show threadchamaeleonAug 27, 2023
I loved my A310 at the time. I'm not so much of a hardware person though, and I'm not sure I can get it working in the US, despite the rush of nostalgia it would mean. Main issue would be getting a monitor going with it.
Show threadjameswoodcockAug 28, 2023
@chamaeleon thanks for sharing. It's getting very expensive getting most things for the Acorn A series of machines unfortunately. RISC OS was so good though for the time.
Show threadchamaeleon
I loved RISC OS. I got the computer in '87 or' 88, while at university. Such smooth multitasking for its time. For school work that involved writing some programs, I fired up the PC emulator in order to run Turbo Pascal. It was sweet seeing a virtual PC running in a window while doing other things in other windows. Writing graphics programs with GUIs (Acorn C) instead of just creating image files like most of the other students did was fun too.
Aug 28, 2023 at 12:21pmWeb