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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: Ni72ous on June 17, 2003, 05:35:48 PM
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Anyone seen this little lot http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2735153817&category=162 on ebay?
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TOO bad it isnt in the US.
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Seems like you need to hire a container if you don't live in the UK and can not pick it up yourself ...
Sorry for asking but there seems to be a little gap in my knowledge, what is an Archimedes ?? What processor ? What possibilities ??
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The Acorn Archimedies used the old ARM RISC processors, surely you had some of these in your school if you were in the UK. RiscOS was dam nasty.
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It looks like this model (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=697), with an ARM 2 processor at 4/8 Mhz.
The Acorns were really popular over here in schools, but never really made it as a home computer. They ran RiscOS, which was built into the ROM and had a few interesting features (ie a taskbar before Win95, which IMO worked better). The graphics were average, but couldn't match Amiga (no copper, blitter etc). AFAIK the last OS was released a few years back, and Acorn is owned by someone else. I think they were still selling h/w then as well, but is was very custom (and extremely expensive).
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RiscOS was dam nasty.
But it's nastiness paled in comparison to what windoze was at the time :-o Perhaps I'm biased as they were probably the second computers I ever used (1st was Amiga of course :-D ) but they always seemed OK.
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There's a mistake in the item list, there's no Spectrum 48ks there, they're 128k+2a(5 of them) and 128k+2b (2 of them).
I wouldn't mind getting that stuff myself, but I've no money and live way too far away :-(
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It's good to see that you can't hog all the good finds :-P
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Went for 360 quid in the end. I reckon that whoever bought it has a grand's worth of stuff there, if he were to sell it separately on ebay....
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£360 is still a bargain. I wish I could've afforded that :-(
Still, I've got some of the important computers anyway (Speccy 128k+2, Miggy 500, 1200). All I need to get is a C64/128 :-D