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Email: broadcaststorm@gmail.com ICQ: AOL: Yahoo:	Username: jonesd98 Realname: Daniel Jones About me: Homepage: http://thejonesfamily.plus.com Face/Logo: Comments posted: 20 (show all) Quickies posted: 2

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On Watch the trailer of BBC's Acorn versus Sinclair history docu-drama:

Try and find an open UK based proxy, Google it! jonesd98 on 30/8/09 12:06PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Watch the trailer of BBC's Acorn versus Sinclair history docu-drama:

It will if you are outside of the UK, as it is a BBC film. jonesd98 on 23/8/09 3:03PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Watch the trailer of BBC's Acorn versus Sinclair history docu-drama:

I've a bad feeling it'll be heavily Sinclair biased... ...but I'm still looking forward to it! jonesd98 on 21/8/09 7:00PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Prof Steve Furber joins Acorn World 2009 talks:

I'll be ordering my tickets to AW2009 ASAP! jonesd98 on 19/8/09 3:50PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

On Prototype Acorn Unix-powered A680 lands on eBay:

Great stuff, would be ace if you could. Sad as it may sound, but I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to old Acorn tech, hence my curiosity! jonesd98 on 18/8/09 4:47PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ]

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Watch the trailer of BBC's Acorn versus Sinclair history docu-drama
The BBC have a uploaded a trailer on the BBC 4 website showing scenes from Micro Men, a drama that "provides an affectionately comic account of the race for home computer supremacy in the 1980s". It was previously titled Syntax Era, but the name was changed after executives feared non-geeks wouldn't get the pun. The programme charts the battle between Acorn and Sinclair, and stars Martin Freeman (The Office) as Acorn co-founder Chris Curry and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong and Miller) as Sir Clive Sinclair.
 23 comments, latest by diomus on 3/9/09 11:18PM. Published: 21 Aug 2009

Prototype Acorn Unix-powered A680 lands on eBay
A rare Acorn A680 running an ARM port of BSD 4.3 has hit online auction site eBay with a minimum opening bid of 100 quid. According to the seller, believed to be ROL's Paul Middleton, there are only a half a dozen of these pre-production systems left in existence. The A680 was developed by Acorn for Olivetti in 1988, and features an ARM2, 8MB of RAM, a 66MB hard drive and an early version of Acorn 4.3 BSD Unix kernel in ROM.
 13 comments, latest by diomus on 25/8/09 12:09AM. Published: 16 Aug 2009

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