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0 pointsLeoPanthera7y ago0 comments

There was a brief discussion on an Acorn forum semi-recently about "If there had been another BBC Micro, what would it have looked like?"

And the consensus was, probably it would have looked like the Acorn Archimedes. Acorn really got it right, and they got it right shockingly early.

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pjc507y ago

The BBC successor was the Acorn Archimedes, really - the only thing it lacked was the branding. Fit the same educational niche, spoke Econet, it even ran BBC basic.

LeoPantheraOP7y ago

One of the first ones didn’t even lack the branding. The A3000 was a “BBC Micro”. Even had red function keys.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Acorn_A3...

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