Acorn computer Centre at Osmington Bay SuperChoice kids activity camp, Dorset, England, UK. Circa 1990's
The Acorn A5000 was an all new model of the Archimedes family replacing the A540. It had 4 slots like previous models but a larger wider case making it look like a workstation computer. It was built on the new fast ARM3 processor as used in the A4 laptop. VGA output and new extra screen modes were introduced as well using cheap standardised IDE hard disks. The keyboard was the quality 'Brisbane' model as used on the previous high end Acorns. (Or could 'Brisbane' be the codename for the A5000, as I discovered it inside the keyboard PCB when I did some repairs on mine?) Many A5000s were fitted with SCSI controller cards and used with caddy-type external CD ROM drives for multimedia applications. Early models had just 2MB of RAM with a slot to allow a 4MB RAM card to be mounted on top. Later A5000s were slightly faster, had 4MB on the motherboard as standard and more generously sized hard disks.
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Location: Osmington Bay Centre, Shortlake Lane, Osmington, Weymouth, UK
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