The first section are all Acorn dealer test discs for the
machine specifed and five editions of the dealer Customer Service News.
These could well be useful still for retro computing enthusiasts.
There's also a copy of the schools' price list from 1998. The 'PocketBook' was a rebranded Psion Series 3.
Click on the Archive  icon to fetch the zipped file, or the Disc 
icon for the ADF disc image file. |
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The
official Acorn Dealer Test Disc for A300 and A400 series
machines from July 1989. Full details in the README1,00
file. |
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The
official Acorn Dealer Test Disc for the BBC A3000 from
September 1989. Full details in the README1,00
file. |
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The
official Acorn Dealer Test Disc for the A5000 machines in
1992. |
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The
official Acorn Test disc for the ARM2500- powered A30x0 and
A4000 series machines. |
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Issue 14 was the
first disc-based release of Acorn Customer Service News. A
full electronic set of Field Change Orders (FCO's) from
late 1987 through to late 1992. Plus Application Notes
(AppNotes) and the NetUtils patch. |
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Issue 15 contains the usual mix of Application Notes and Field Change Orders. |
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Here's issue 18. What
happened to 16 & 17? From memory, they didn't have
discs. This has a full up to date (May 1993) archive of the
AppNotes, a few more FCO's and the free RISC OS
dearchiver, !SparkPlug. |
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And now we jump to issue 22, in two parts. Disc 1 contains !Products, which is a fairly comprehensive database of
RISC OS software in respect to compatibility with the Risc PC. |
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Disc 2 has various Application Notes |
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And now issue 23, also in two parts. Disc 1 contains upgrades to several core apps. |
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Disc 2 has !MakeModes and a driver for the Epson Stylus Colour range of printers. |
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The Xemplar Education Schools price list from 1998, in Excel format.
Xemplar was started as a joint venture for the UK schools market by Apple and Acorn to challenge the increase in Windows machines.
Later, Fujitsu Siemens joined the party. Apple pulled out as part of Steve Jobs' restructuring of the company |
| The second section contains demo discs for various machines and bundles. |
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A3000 -
'Advertising Rolling Demo (V2.09)'. Supplied to
dealers for use on display systems. It sort of runs okay
under RISC OS 4, with only the 'Soldiers' animation
being broken. In 1989, this was quite classy. Rendered
marching soldiers were courtesy of 'RenderBender' by
Clares Micros Supplies, from memory.
Disk Label Information:
ADVERTISING ROLLING DEMO (V2.09)
To start the demo, Autoboot (Shift/Break) or double
click on !AcornDemo.
To quit the demo, click the middle button of the
mouse on "Better Solutions"; or press the "Home" key
to quit the "Soldiers" demo.
Copyright (c) Acorn Computers Limited 1989
Acorn is a trademark of Acorn Computers Limited
BBC is a trademark of British Broadcasting Corporation |
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Advertising Rolling Demo for the A3000 Learning Curve bundle. This came with First Word Plus, Genesis, the software PC Emulator,
a Pacman clone and some other bits and pieces. I think I've got a copy of the VHS tape somewhere... |
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The
official dealer rolling demo for the A5000. Seems to work
perfectly under RISC OS 4. Note that in the Easiwriter demo,
RISC OS is written Risc OS, which is very
non-canonical. |
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In 1992,
Acorn and Tesco started the first retail promotion whereby
parents could get stuff for their kids' school by getting
vouchers with their shopping. This demo could run unattended
in stores. In theory. |
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The
official Acorn dealer demo for the A3010. This was intended
as a 'home computer' version of the A3020 and A4000.
Same case as the former, but with RF modulator for TV
connexion, no IDE interface and lower memory to cut costs.
Lots went into schools when the retail sales didn't
happen. |
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A rolling demo for the A3010 Action Pack bundle. This added !StartWrite, !Chuck (A Chuck Rock clone) and !Zool to the basic machine, |