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- From: bsalter@acorn.co.uk (Brian Salter)
- Subject: Birmingham Open Day News Release
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:18:42 GMT
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- British Olympic Hurdlers Compete for Gold - Again!
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- Release Date 2.9.92 Colin Jackson and Tony Jarrett - Britain's top
- ranking hurdlers, are making guest appearances at the World of Acorn
- event to be held in Birmingham on the 12th and 13th September. Colin
- and Tony will be challenging visitors to compete against them in an
- exciting new athletics simulation called Quest for Gold.
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- The game runs on Acorn's range of 32-bit RISC computers. Developed by
- Krisalis Software, Quest for Gold is a detailed athletic simulation of
- track and field events, including both training and competition.
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- Quest for Gold is being included in Acorn's Learning Curve and Family
- Solution packs, designed for the home computing environment. The
- concept of the Learning Curve pulls together the needs of computing in
- schools, at the office and in the home, whereas the Family Solution
- represents an ideal introduction to home computing.
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- The World of Acorn will be the first public showing in the Midlands of
- Acorn's new range of powerful 32-bit computers which start from under
- #500. Members of Acorn will be on hand demonstrating the equipment and
- showing how they can fulfill a variety of computing requirements
- including education, business, word processing, desktop publishing,
- art, music and leisure activities.
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- Also exhibiting at the event will be dealers from the Birmingham area
- and several leading software houses.
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- The World of Acorn is being held at the National Motorcycle Museum,
- Coventry Road, Bicken Hill, Birmingham on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th
- September from 10am until 4pm.
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- Further Information from
- Simon Lovesey
- Acorn Computers
- Cambridge CB1 4JN
- Tel 0223 245200
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