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- From: bsalter@acorn.co.uk
- Subject: Acorn Computers at Ideal Home
- Date: 9 Mar 93 16:07:46 GMT
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- Acorn Computers at Ideal Home
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- Acorn Computers is appearing at the Ideal Home Exhibition showing off its
- wide range of computing solutions aimed specifically at the home user.
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- Acorn is the only manufacturer of high quality 32-bit RISC computers
- starting from under #500, and last year won the coveted Queen's Award for
- Technological Achievement for the design and implementation of the ARM RISC
- processor found in every one of its Archimedes platforms. It is the market
- leader in Education and its computers are now found in the vast majority of
- schools across the UK.
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- On the stand will be a wide representative selection of the Archimedes range
- of home computing solutions. Centre stage will be two stations featuring a
- major new promotion in conjunction with Lotus Cars - the Lotus Turbo
- Challenge, which offers visitors the chance to win a trip around the Lotus
- factory and to try out the new Lotus Esprit S4; and for the ultimate
- champion, an all expenses paid trip to the Italian Grand Prix in September
- with a special pass to the Lotus Formula 1 team pits.
-
- Visitors to the stand will also be able to find out how computers can add a
- new dimension to music allowing you to create a studio in your own home. A
- range of software will be running which allows a home computer to "talk" to
- an instrumental keyboard and both produce a score automatically from notes
- played in on the keyboard as well as create complex compositions utilising a
- wide range of "voices" and effects on the instrument.
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- Most people at one time or another have need of a range of tools including
- word processing, spreadsheets and database manipulation. Acorn's Learning
- Curve products are ideally suited with applications for the small business
- user right through to the society treasurer or secretary. On show at the
- Acorn stand will be word processing and desk top processing applications,
- which can use data imported directly from spreadsheets or databases and can
- easily be merged in to letters for mailshot purposes.
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- Whilst Acorn computers feature the powerful RISC OS operating system, which
- allows many applications to run concurrently - multitasking with one another
- - they can also access PC programs swapping data with DOS applications. It
- is even possible to run Microsoft Windows inside a RISC OS window and for
- the two operating systems to use each other's data.
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- Acorn Computers can be found on stand 312C on the first floor of the
- Exhibition Hall. (Ends)
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