http://www.silicon.com Results for Acorn en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39635527,00.htm Also popular last month was silicon.com reporter Nick Heath's interview with Acorn co-founder, Andy Hopper, and a look at the best sectors to work in IT from a pay-packet point of view. October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:33:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39559860,00.htm Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's early days and sustainable IT. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:59:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39546160,00.htm The lot also includes an FO3 Acorn cassette data recorder. This is the Lyons Electronic Office - LEOII/3 electronic programmable storage computer which was first demonstrated in 1958. Just 13 of the Leo II devices were built and it was one of the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:29:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39428128,00.htm Acorn went on to produce the Archimedes series of computers and chips developed by its subsidiary ARM are used in many different mobile phone handsets today. Widely used in schools across the UK the BBC Micro was a massive success for its... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 07 May 2009 15:58:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39399129,00.htm The BBC Micro was developed with computer manufacturer Acorn and was aimed at breaking Research Machine's stranglehold on the education market during the 1980s. The bleeps and beeps of the world's earliest computers are being crafted into... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:17:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39283619,00.htm The migration to Microsoft products is being undertaken by IT integrator Fordway and forms part of the council's Actively Creating Opportunities for Remote and New Ways of Working (Acorn) initiative. The Acorn programme is expected to be complete... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:26:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39275910,00.htm But what happened to Acorn? The BBC Micro was developed with computer manufacturer Acorn and was aimed at breaking Research Machine's stranglehold on the education market. Acorn Risc PC Launched in 1994, the Acorn Risc PC came out of the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:26:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39210522,00.htm Commodore 64 or Acorn Electron? And George Reywer from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne asked "what about the Acorn Atom? Amstrad or Spectrum? silicon.com readers have posted a flurry of comments around a poll we ran recently asking the question, what was your... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:09:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39193699,00.htm Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking the deceptively simple question: what was your first home computer? This question formed the basis of our latest reader poll - which saw the ZX... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:57:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm Bringing up the rear were the Dragon 32 (five per cent) and Acorn Electron with just three per cent of the vote. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum has been crowned the most popular first home computer, beating off competition from other classics such as the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:30:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39164990,00.htm That's right, worse than performing arts (which in the Round-Up's day was called 'music and movement' and was beneath even a room full of infants pretending to be an acorn growing into a big tree). Andrew Hopper, a co-founder of Acorn Computers way... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 05 Jan 2007 11:50:03 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39164937,00.htm Acorn's co-founder, Andy Hopper was appointed Commander of the British Empire for services to the computer industry in the New Year's honours list. Acorn produced several microcomputers - including the BBC Micro, which has been credited with kick... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:15:04 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39127784,00.htm The company soon received a timely boost from its rivals: Acorn and even the mighty Sinclair were hit by supply problems, and, thanks to some heavy promotion by Boots the Chemist, Dragon 32s were flying off the shelves. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:10:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39127566,00.htm Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the Acorn Electron and the Vic-20. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:40:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39127414,00.htm Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Acorn Electron. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. We are running the full series again to mark the recent... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:10:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39127208,00.htm Parts one and two featured the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Acorn Electron. Early discussions with Clive Sinclair were fruitless, when the machine he offered failed to match the rigorous specifications (Spectrum aficionados take note), and... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:15:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39127081,00.htm But the rush never came and Acorn was left with a backlog of stock and the parts to make thousands of machines that nobody wanted. Acorn was not about to mess this up. Here Will Sturgeon considers one of the rivals to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:55:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39123861,00.htm Saxby took on this Acorn offshoot as a small Cambridge start-up. You, our readers, and the audience of our UK sister site ZDNet UK, also published by CNET, have come up with a shortlist of 10 people. Many names you will recognise. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 09 Sep 2004 09:40:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/pdas/0,39024643,11037048,00.htm THE ACORN ELECTRON One of our most popular video pieces ever was The Big Question: What was your first computer? first aired in April 2002. At the time it brought in a barrage of reader comments as you all became dewy eyed at the recollection of... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:30:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/0,39024711,11034680,00.htm The company began life as a collaborative effort between Acorn and Apple Computer. ARM is a company that has always wanted to be at the very heart of the industry. And with its technology fast becoming something of an industry standard, it's still... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:30:00 +0000