The '80s was a significant time in the tech world and while some gadgets were just plain odd, here are six that shaped how we ...

The Archimedes was a line of ARM-based personal computers by Acorn Computers, released in the late 80s and discontinued in the 90s as Macintosh and IBM PC-compatible machines ultimately dominated.

In the over three decades since [Sophie Wilson] created the first ARM processor design for the Acorn Archimedes home computer, the architecture has been managed commercially such that it has ...

How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world 1987's Acorn Archimedes was the first production RISC-based personal computer.

Acorn had set up a remote software development team in Palo Alto, California, home of Xerox PARC, to design a next-generation operating system for the Archimedes.

Every Acorn gamer knew Zarch because its demo, strangely called Lander, was packaged with most machines - and the wider world would later know it as Virus as it was ported up and off into the ether.

ARM2 soon followed, incorporated into the Acorn Archimedes, the first RISC-based home computer. ARM3 introduced a 4KB cache and further improved performance.

Before the Archimedes, Acorn equipped existing machines with prototype ARM1 chips as second processors, simulating the Archimedes instruction set in a program written in BBC BASIC. The in-house ...

MiSTer uses field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology to shapeshift into classic hardware, from the NES to the Neo Geo, to the Apple II or Acorn Archimedes.

"It incorporates elements from other versions that are considered the best, such as for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Acorn Archimedes." ...

The Acorn Archimedes range of computers was moderately popular, especially in schools, around the time of the Atari ST and Amiga home computer reign. However these ARM powered computers were quite ...

For the middle classes shall not see her like again. Amen. You can all start calling me a posh nob for owning an Archimedes now. Images and video courtesy of Vanpeebles' Acorn Games Video Archive.