Lionel A Smith

Fareham, Hants. UK

Retired but still busy.

Picture 6 is of an Acorn A3020 and not an Acorn RISC PC as such which had a variable number of main case slices (the one I have here has two slices with two internal hardrives fitted - one a SCSI) and a separate keyboard.

Sure the A3020 is based on the ARM RISC chipset but is only one of a number of such computers which began, in 1987, with the A310 (1MB RAM) and A305 (512KB RAM) with separate keyboards and running the 'Arthur' OS. RISC OS came later as RISC OS 2 , C 1989, which had a rich featured WIMP interface and excellent vector drawing (DRAW) and pixel based (PAINT) graphics software in the OS ROMS.

RISC OS 2 introduced a high standard of text antialiasing not seen on Windows before 95 and even then RISC OS was better.