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House of Mabel Computer Museum

This was supposed to be a serious history of Acorn hardware using my own collection as a cheap source of photo models, but somewhere along the way it just turned into a list of stuff I have in my collection, with recollections of how they were bought, what they were used for, and any gossip on their creation I can remember. I've also added a quick buyer's guide in case you're also trying to get hold of classic Acorn machines.

Many of these machines have been collected since I started to earn soooo much money that I could afford twenty or thirty quid for a piece of junk/history and still be able to eat at the end of the month, but some of them are what got me where I am today - so you can take this as a cautionary tale perhaps. I spent my formative years with an Acorn Electron; tried and failed to take things seriously with an A310; and still go to work toting a RiscPC on my shoulder.

Some of the pictures are a bit dodgy - at the time I didn't have my own digital camera, so both size and camerawork are somewhat lesser than that which I aim for now - but they should do for illustration purposes.

8 bit machines BBC Model B Acorn Electron BBC Master Master Compact ARM Development System	32 (or 26) bit machines A310 A440 A3000 A3010 A5000 RiscPC Phoebe NCs	Operating Systems etc. ArthurOS RISC OS 2 RISC OS 3 RISC OS 4 Including RISC OS 3.5 onwards My desk at work circa May 2002. You need JavaScript and a big screen mode to see it properly.
Other stuff
Linux server	NetWare machine	Apple hardware
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