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Acorn Archimedes A3000

Acorn · 1989

The Archimedes that schools actually bought: one wedge case with the keyboard built in, priced for an education budget, and consequently the most common ARM machine of its generation in Britain. If you used a computer in a British classroom around 1990 it was probably this. Same ARM2 as the A310 in a cheaper package, and the case design that Acorn reused for the A3010 that followed it.

As catalogued

Maker
Acorn
CPU
Acorn ARM2-8
Memory
1MB, 2MB, 4MB
Styles
A3000
Regions
PAL (UK)
Chassis
wedge, one-piece
OS
RISC OS 2.00

Chips

6
CPU
Acorn ARM2, Acorn ARM3 (upgrade)
Floppy controller
WD1772
OS ROM
RISC OS 2.00, RISC OS 3.00, RISC OS 3.10, RISC OS 3.11
MEMC
MEMC1a
VIDC
VIDC1a
IOC
IOC

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