MalcVolm

You might be right. BUT At the start the Tesco Computers for schools project was tied exclusively to Acorn Via the BBC Micro. Simply because there were far more of them around in schools when compared to RM 380z and 480. AAnd there were loads of other 8 bit machines .machines Commodore CLC, dragon, Jupiter ace, Newbury, Spectrum, ….. a lot. So to avoid complexity Tesco selected Acorn machines. That went on for a number of years, then Tesco diversified their offering to accommodate those who were not in the Acorn fold. we had a new LEA “inspector” arrive. His experience was with RM kit. The LEA he moved to was an Acoen stronghold. When a tranch of Government money cam along he decided we should switch to RM. That generated a lot of infighting. Letters from parent to the LEA complaining. His team of advisory teachers and the head of the computing centre at the time were not in favour. The inspector persisted. “MS DOS, is an industry standard, it’s what the children will use in their jobs when they leave school”. That argument won over the elected councillors. And now, every day, everyone uses ARM based technology.

You’ve got it all wrong. You don’t remember it well enough. I used to work as a Ict advisory teacher in those days. The Tesco computer in schools initiative supported to purchase of acorn computers. It was in the days of BBC micros. And I think Archimedes. It was a really exciting time in schools. These were not boring beige boxes. There was a wealth of educational software and the hardware if it was the arm based machines or state of the art. They were complaints of the time but the other educational computer research machines didn’t get a look. The Acorn range of computers with arm chips was perhaps the most most important innovation in computing ever. I had a machine with an arm one chip I remember doing a demonstration but compared a 286 machine with an old machine both of similar price it involves dragging a graphic a picture and dropping it into a document. I dropped it into impression Junior on the Acorn machine. The image was rendered instantly. I’ve ended the same on an Intel machine. It was a research machines 286 so I took the image drugs across and dropped it into word the hard desk was thrashing away and after two minutes and not joking the image appeared in the word document. This was a live demonstration and I never dragged and dropped an image into word before I was staggering how awful it was anyway ARM lives on. It’s just a great pity that acorn didn’t survive and who knows British chips British computers would’ve ruled the world wrong Intel, Dell, compac and all the other beige boxes that run windows. And we have arm chips that power all Apple computers. Definitely a fan boy of a Acorn machines., At this time nothing, I repeat nothing compete in terms of what they could do in handling or graphics general and usability

You’ve got it all wrong. You don’t remember it well enough. I used to work as a Ict advisory teacher in those days. The Tesco computer in schools initiative supported to purchase of acorn computers. It was in the days of BBC micros. And I think Archimedes. It was a really exciting time in schools. These were not boring beige boxes. There was a wealth of educational software and the hardware if it was the arm based machines or state of the art. They were complaints of the time but the other educational computer research machines didn’t get a look. The Acorn range of computers with arm chips was perhaps the most most important innovation in computing ever. I had a machine with an arm one chip I remember doing a demonstration but compared a 286 machine with an old machine both of similar price it involves dragging a graphic a picture and dropping it into a document. I dropped it into impression Junior on the Acorn machine. The image was rendered instantly. I’ve ended the same on an Intel machine. It was a research machines 286 so I took the image drugs across and dropped it into word the hard desk was thrashing away and after two minutes and not joking the image appeared in the word document. This was a live demonstration and I never dragged and dropped an image into word before I was staggering how awful it was anyway ARM lives on. It’s just a great pity that acorn didn’t survive and who knows British chips British computers would’ve ruled the world wrong Intel, Dell, compac and all the other beige boxes that run windows. And we have arm chips that power all Apple computers. Definitely a fan boy of a Acorn machines., At this time nothing, I repeat nothing compete in terms of what they could do in handling or graphics general and usability