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	Acorn Electron -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Acorn Electron was a budget version of the (Click link for more info and facts about BBC Micro) BBC Micro educational/ (A computer intended for use in the home) home computer made by (Click link for more info and facts about Acorn Computers Ltd) Acorn Computers Ltd.
		The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the (Click link for more info and facts about BBC Micro) BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low cost Christmas sales market for that year.
		Although Acorn were able to shrink substantially the same functionality as the BBC into just one custom designed ULA, manufacturing problems meant that very few machines were available for the Christmas period with some shops reporting eight presales for every delivered machine.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ac/acorn_electron.htm (881 words)

	Encyclopedia: Acorn Electron
		The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low cost Christmas sales market for that year.
		However, as the Electron internals bear very little resemblance to the BBC Micro most games use firmware routines for hardware dependant actions such as selecting a particular graphics mode and as a result full hardware exploitation is substantially less common on the Electron than other popular micros.
		Acorn Electron version of Citadel - graphically identical to the BBC Micro version but for multicoloured borders Citadel was a computer game released in 1985 for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro by Superior Software that combined platform elements with puzzle solving in a style similar to the later Dizzy series...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Acorn-Electron (3692 words)

	Acorn Computers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acorn's BBC Micro computer dominated the UK educational computer market during the 1980s and early 1990s, drawing many comparisons with Apple in the U.S. Though the company was broken up into several independent operations in 2000, it leaves an impressive legacy, particularly in the development of RISC personal computers.
		The Electron had been launched in 1983, but problems with the supply of its ULAs meant that Acorn was not able to capitalise on the 1983 Christmas selling period – a successful advertising campaign, including TV advertisements, had led to 300,000 orders, but the Malaysian suppliers were only able to supply 30,000 machines.
		Acorn was in real trouble: by the end of the year it had 250,000 unsold Electrons on its hands, which had all been paid for and needed to be stored – at additional expense.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acorn_Computers_Ltd (4571 words)

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		The Electron was the brainchild of Chris Curry and Hermann Hauser - co-founders of Acorn in 1978.
		As such the Electron was well received upon its launch but Acorn was not ready to meet the demand that ensued and a captive audience soon began looking elsewhere for their home computers.
		The pair ran Acorn with no management experience and when the Electron was confined to the dusty confines of attics around the UK by the widespread uptake of infinitely more powerful home PCs and games consoles, Curry and Hauser were able to move on.
	www.stairwaytohell.com /articles/SILICON-Electron.html (1901 words)

	Acorn Electron review. Your Computer September 1983
		When you switch on the Electron makes a little beep which is reminiscent of the Beeb, but quieter, and a green light appears to the left of the keyboard.
		The Electron plugs in to a normal television or to a colour or fl and white monitor.
		The screen display for the Electron is exactly as for the BBC Model B, with the exception that mode 7, the teletext mode, is not available.
	www.gondolin.org.uk /hchof/reviews/yc-electron.html (1790 words)

	Find Bbc Acorn Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Acorn's range of 8-bit machines include the Atom (on the picture), the BBC models A, B and B+, the Electron, the BBC Master and the Master Compact.
		The Acorn BBC Micro came into being when Acorn won the contract from the BBC to produce a home computer that the BBC could use to promote technology and computing at home, school and in the work place.
		Acorn Proton blev omdÃ¸bt til Acorn BBC og blev snart de facto computeren forÃ¦ldre kÃ¸bte til deres bÃ¸rn...
	www.acorn-internet.net /information/4/bbc-acorn.html (617 words)

	House of Mabel: Computers: Electron
		Although the Electron eventually had several add-on floppy disc interfaces made for it, being the cheap and cheerful, less powerful machine meant that even if you could afford them it often wasn't worth it.
		Memory was always tight on the Electron - it had 32KB of memory, up to 20KB of which could be eaten by the screen memory requirements (it didn't have a MODE7 teletext mode like the BBC, which only took 1KB of memory for a whole screen full of text and psuedo-graphics).
		Another fun thing to do was find a radio/cassette machine with the motor control input used by the Electron to stop and start the tape; write a small timer program; and then when a favourite late-night radio comedy show started the Elk would start the tape and it was like a VCR for radio.
	www.houseofmabel.com /puters/Electron (656 words)

	ODP: Computers:Systems:Acorn:Electron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Acorn Electron - Photographs of the machine, inside, and motherboard, along with a technical specification.
		Acorn Electron - Photographs of the case and circuitry, along with specification.
		Acorn Electron - Technical characteristics, a photograph, and a brief description.
	beta.thesoftwarestudio.com /Computers,Systems,Acorn,Electron.html (335 words)

	Directory - Computers: Systems: Acorn: Electron
		Acorn Electron · cached · Photographs of the case and circuitry, along with specification.
		Acorn Electron · iweb · cached · Technical characteristics, a photograph, and a brief description.
		Acorn Electron · cached · Photographs of the machine and logo, along with a description.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=474209 (251 words)

	After the Beeb - the Electron and the Acorn Business Computer (1983 to 1985)
		The Electron was developed by Acorn during 1983, with the aim of releasing it in time for the Christmas rush.
		The other main difference between the BBC Micro and the Electron was that the Electron did not have the extra circuitry to display the Beeb's teletext mode.
		Following the problems with the Electron, Acorn was in serious financial trouble, and in 1984 the company was rescued by Olivetti.
	www.mcmordie.co.uk /acornhistory/elkhist.shtml (757 words)

	Acorn Electron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Acorn Electron was a budget version of the BBC Micro computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd It had 32 kilobytes of RAM, and ran a version of BASIC as its operating system.
		The hardware used on the BBC Micro was emulated by a single chip (ULA) which was designed by Acorn.
		It had feature limitations such as being unable to output more than 1 channel of sound instead of being polyphonic, the inability to provide teletext mode and unable to run applications as fast as the BBC Micro.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/a/ac/acorn_electron.html (252 words)

	The BBC lives! -- Introduction & History
		Acorn was not prepared for this demand, so most parents bought ZX Spectrums for their children instead.
		Acorn enthusiasts who knew about the RISC project, realised that these machines were what they looked like - a stop gap to get money coming in from schools whilst Acorn worked on the next big thing.
		When the Acorn Archimedes (with a RISC processor) was launched in 1987, it was obvious to everyone that the BBC series of microcomputers was dying.
	bbc.nvg.org /history.php3 (3572 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The Acorn Electron is basically a cut-down version of the Acorn BBC-B with which it was partly compatible.
		But unfortunately, public demand and enthusiasm was on the wane, and despite an extensive £4-million advertising campaign, a third of the Electrons that were built never made it to the shelves, leaving behind large stockpiles of components that had been paid for, unused.
		The built-in Acorn Electron Basic, largely derived from the famous BBC Basic, was impressive with innovative features such as the ability to define real procedures with DEF PROC and ENDPROC, or the handling of error events (in 1983 !).
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=121 (474 words)

	The Acorn Guide to the Electron, Neil Cryer Pat Cryer, Penguin Acorn Computer Library
		The Acorn Electron is probably, for the price, the most advanced personal computer on the market.
		You may be thinking of buying this book because you have just bought the new Acorn Electron or maybe you have bought the machine as a present for a friend or relative.
		Whichever is the case, the Acorn Guide to the Electron is the indispensable companion to the machine.
	www.clive.nl /detail/23914 (324 words)

	The Digital Dungeon
		The Acorn Electron is basically a cut-down version of the Acorn BBC-B whith which it is partly compatible.
		But sadly, Acorn failed to meet the demand for the new system, mainly because of production problems related to the large custom ULA which is the heart of the Electron.
		The built-in Acorn Electron Basic, largely derived from the famous BBC Basic, is impressive with innovative features such as the possibility to define real procedures with DEF PROC and ENDPROC, or the handling of error events (in 1983 !).
	www.ping.be /~pin11547/digitaldungeon/computer/acorn/electron_01/electron_01.html (507 words)

	Does that name sound familiar? - RISC OS News, Software and Information
		Like the Electron, which was always a poor relation to the BBC micro, Electron User was a lesser version of The Micro User and Acorn User magazines.
		It is ambiguous enough to not pin him down as the words "Electron" and "Acorn" did to magazines past, flags up his product alone when entered into a web search engine and he can also, initially, define exactly what he wants it to mean and what he wants it to include.
		The fact that the word Acorn in the title of AU and AP may have held the mags back to some degree is due to the fact that the name was dropped by others.
	www.drobe.co.uk /riscos/artifact926.html (3591 words)

	Find Acorn Electron Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Acorn Electron is basically a cut-down version of the Acorn...
		The Electron was developed by Acorn during 1983, with the aim of...
		The Acorn Electron was a budget version of the BBC Micro computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd...
	www.acorn-internet.net /information/1/acorn-electron.html (507 words)

	Technical history of Acorn (Version 0.6 Beta)
		Acorn formed by Chris Curry and Herman Hauser.
		Acorn Network Computer (NC) launched by Acorn Network Computing, Set Top box 2 launched by AOM, Stork and NewsPAD launched by ART.
		Acorn rebranded as Element 14 and shifts corporate focus.
	www.mcmordie.co.uk /acornhistory/index.shtml (385 words)

	Acorn
		The BBC B was quite expensive, so Acorn decided to produce a smaller, more limited "little brother", called Electron.
		As technology improved, Acorn introduced its "big brother", the BBC Master.
		It also came in several models: the Master 128 and 512 with 128 and 512 KB memory respectively.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/9723/acorn.html (188 words)

	Computer Systems - Comp Sys Acorn Hardware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hello I was given an acorn electron a while back and plugged it in for the first time this weekend.
		A friend has given me all his acorn electron stuff, including a keyboard and a box of games.
		It is a much nicer arrangement to plug the mouse into the back of the keyboard than underneath the base of the computer (by analogy, presumably, with BBC disc drives?) or behind the back of the computer where it is jammed against...
	www.comp-sys-it.org /New-17-TFT-Monitor--comments-please-5573-301-cat1.html (3412 words)

	Synetris : Systems : Acorn : Electron
		Photographs of the Electron in its box, and unpacked, complete with user guide, guarantee, and cables.
		Photograph and description of an Electron with a Jafa Mode 7 unit, Slogger RomBox, Acorn Plus 1, ACP Advanced Plus 4, and 2 Sideways RAM expansions.
		Details of the author's own Electron, along with photographs of a range of Electron hardware and expansions, and circuit diagrams.
	www.synetris.com /index.php?c=Systems/Acorn/Electron (185 words)

	My first computer: The Acorn Electron - Desktops - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
		Here Will Sturgeon considers one of the rivals to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the UK home computing market more than 20 years ago, the Acorn Electron.
		Acorn went on to produce the RISC PC series in Apr...
		My first computer was the Acorn Atom in 1980, buil...
	hardware.silicon.com /desktops/0,39024645,39127081,00.htm (1213 words)

	Acorn Electron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Little brother of the famous (at least in Europe) Acorn BBC micro.
		Now I'm glad that it was the Electron and not the CPC464.
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	obsoletecomputermuseum.org /electron (130 words)

	Acorn Electron online - information and memorabilia. 80's Culture, 80's Computers and more!
		Description: As the first home computer I ever saw, the Acorn Electron was a bit of a disappointment design-wise.
		The Acorn Electron had a cream plastic case that looked like you should lift off the top to reveal a secret compartment with lots of chocolates inside!
		The Acorn Electron was surrounded with a kind-of kitsch chic.
	www.doyouremember.co.uk /memory.asp?ID=4078 (387 words)

	Binary Dinosaurs - Acorn Electron
		Even the BASIC was cut down so a lot of BBC BASIC programs wouldn't work either a) without modification or b) at all.
		Looking at my Electron software collection there seems to be some ported BBC stuff but mostly it's conversions from other platforms.
		These days there's approximately no enthusiasm for these machines any more, this isn't helped by the fact the ULAs could cook themselves, and obviously the only way you're going to get another one is from another Electron.
	www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk /Museum/Acorn/electron.php (159 words)

	AnF games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		version of Chuckie Egg Chuckie Egg was a computer game released during the early 1980s for a wide variety of computers, including the Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro.
		the Acorn Electron and Amstrad CPC versions) and those without (e.g.
		Although there is a substantial difference in play between the two, levels remain largely the same and all 8bit versions have been accepted as classics.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /AnF-games (275 words)

	Acorn Electron Haven - Hardware, Information & Link Archives
		The ACORN ELECTRON is a computer measuring 34cm x 16cm x 5cm.
		The ACORN ELECTRON was originally available in high street stores or by mail order from Acornsoft for £199.95.
		ElectrEm (a PC Acorn Electron emulator) can be made to emulate a standard ACORN ELECTRON by disabling some of the ROM options.
	www.acornelectron.co.uk /info/acorn/i-elec.html (359 words)

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