Acorn Archimedes A440/1

Acorn · 1987

The top of the 1987 Archimedes launch: 4MB of memory and a hard disc when the A310 had half a megabyte and floppies, aimed at technical and publishing work rather than schools. Expensive at the time and consequently uncommon now. The interest is the same as the A310's — early ARM2, and Acorn's argument that a British RISC design could beat the American 68000s — with the specification the argument deserved.

As catalogued

Maker
Acorn
CPU
Acorn ARM2-8
Memory
1MiB, 2MiB, 4MiB
Styles
A410/1, A420/1, A440, A440/1
Regions
PAL (UK)
Chassis
two-box desktop with a hard disk
OS
Arthur 1.20 / RISC OS 2

Chips

6
CPU
Acorn ARM2, Acorn ARM3 (upgrade)
Floppy controller
WD1772
OS ROM
Arthur 1.20, RISC OS 2.00, RISC OS 3.11
MEMC
MEMC1, MEMC1a
VIDC
VIDC1, VIDC1a
IOC
IOC

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