An Oral History of Acorn Computers?
I recently spent a happy afternoon over at folklore.org - Andy Hertzfeld’s superb oral history of the Apple Macintosh. The recent excitement about Xara’s decision to Open Source Xara and this interview with Charles Moir has got me thinking that there really should be a similar site to capture the early history of Acorn Computers.
Wikipedia has a fairly good outline of the Acorn story and quick Google throws up plenty of resources for but, as far as I’m aware, nobody has captured the anecdotes, the recollections of people who made it happen.
So if you were there - or you know somebody who was - please point them this way. I’ve set up a mailing list to kick off a discussion about how we might proceed.
December 1st, 2005 at 1:32 pm
What a great idea, the folklore.org website (and book) are great. I worked for Acorn on two occassions whilst on student placements. On the first occassion I worked on the Medusa team (RiscPC) and the second time I worked on the Aquarius(?) team which was the C/C++ development teams (!ResEdit, !ResTest). It was a fantastic place to work and there were a lot of great people there.
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