If you're a Brit of a certain age, the name Acorn probably has as much resonance for you as Commodore or Amiga does for us Yanks. No, it's not because you're a squirrelwatcher (not that there's ...

Robert McMordie's A technical history of Acorn Computers is a concise and occasionally darkly funny hypertext concerning the 1970s British computing startup that made some excellent machines but ran ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the ...

Today, historic UK computer brand Acorn announced a 40 th Anniversary release - the Acorn Micro Phone C5. Acorn's success in the public eye began with the BBC Micro in the 1980s, continued with the ...

In the world of technology, few innovations have had as widespread an impact as the ARM processor. This remarkable piece of engineering has its roots in the late 1970s, when a team from Acorn ...

Thirteenth of September will see the 30th anniversary of UK technology company Acorn Computers, famous in the 1980s 8-bit boom for its 6502-based microcomputers such as the Electron, Atom and BBC ...

Cambridge, England – In a notice to the London stock exchange Acorn Computer Group has confirmed it is working for U.S. software giant Oracle Corp. to develop reference designs for low-cost Internet ...

Want to see a 90s-era Acorn Archimedes A3020 home computer get opened up, refurbished, and taken for a test drive? Don’t miss [drygol]’s great writeup on Retrohax, because it’s got all that, and more!

BBC at school, Electron at home, arguments with Spectrum owners on the way home... This article was first published in January 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are ...

On 21 June 1948, the world’s first stored-program computer ran its first program. The Manchester Baby eventually evolved into the Ferranti Mark I. Acorn used semi-custom chips from Ferranti in the ...