Pocket Books
Acorn rebadged the
Series 3 and Series 3a as Pocket Book machines, and sold them mainly into
the UK education market. Many schools bought machines for whole classes to
teach them maths, physics, etc. without the expense of desktop computers.
The original Pocket Book is a Series 3 clone, with some of the features of
the Psion equivalent (such as the Agenda and OPL) removed. Subsequently
these were made available on SSD, and a graph plotting application
substituted. World and some of the financial functions in the spreadsheet
were also removed, and the applications renamed as below:
Psion Name | Acorn Name |
Agenda | Schedule |
Data | Cards |
Sheet | Abacus |
Word | Write |
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PocketFS
With the Pocket Books in the Acorn
range, it became important to have a way of linking them to their desktop
machines. Consequently Acorn commissioned the production of PocketFS,
the file transfer and conversion software. It was supplied complete with the
A-Link, a serial link pod with modified firmware and wiring. The A-Link
hardware will work with RCOM or PsiWin on a PC, but the PC
hardware won't work on an Acorn RISC OS computer without modifying the
wiring.
If you only have a 3-Link, it can be made to work with a RISC OS
machine by changing the wiring as below:
If you try this, you might want to put an intermediate connector in the line so you can go to the PC configuration again, but it shouldn't be necessary. If it doesn't work, don't blame me, but others have made it work successfully. You'll then need to find a copy of PocketFS, which can't normally be bought without the Link hardware, although it can be found second-hand.
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