August 1983 · Computer or hardware
Acorn Electron (1983)
Cut-down, lower-cost home computer from Acorn that ran much of BBC Micro software. It had a 6502A and 32 KB of RAM.
Lower-cost relative of the BBC Micro with 32 KB of RAM.
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Facts
- Date
- August 1983
- Kind
- Computer or hardware: Home computer
- Maker or publisher
- Acorn Computers
- Platforms
- Acorn Electron
- CPU
- Synertek SY6502A
- CPU speed
- 2 MHz (ROM), 1 MHz (RAM)
- RAM installed
- 32 KB
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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- BBC Micro (cut-down version of, 1981)
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