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- Subject: Re: ACORN'S NEW BABIES
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- From: Gavin.Flower@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Gavin Flower)
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:51:15 GMT
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- In article <2aa4fdec.8cc135.4@BEIZ.mediatex.ch> Ikki@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (0642210101: Fernmeldedirektion Olten) writes:
- >Acorn should use instead their confusing
- >numbers names. (How about Acorn "Proton"
- >or "Neutron" or Acorn "Popcorn" or what
- >ever?? GRIN!!
-
- Well the "Proton" was what the Beeb prototype was called.
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- The "Neutron", I used as the name of a portable Acorn computer, in an
- article for the April edition of Beeblet, our national user group
- magazine, several years ago.
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- Don't know if anyone has used "Popcorn", as a name of a computer.
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- Gavin
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