Acorn Business Computer Documentation
Acorn's brochure for the Acorn Business Computer (ABC) range is hosted here. It is the only Acorn document describing the whole range that has been found online; Acorn's service documents for the individual ABC models are not known to survive, although several Acorn manuals cover parts that the ABCs shared with other products.
Brochure APP01
[edit | edit source]Acorn's brochure "The Acorn Business Computer", reference APP01, is a 6-page scan with a text layer (File:Acorn Business Computer brochure (APP01).pdf). It is undated; the range it describes was announced in 1984.[1]
- Pages 1 and 2: the range, the common case and keyboard, the 12-inch tilt-and-swivel monitor, the ABC Personal Assistant and the ABC 100.
- Page 3: the ABC 110, 200, 210, 300 and 310, and the ABC Terminal.
- Page 4: a one-line specification for each of the eight models.
- Page 5: a photograph of the machine (cropped as File:Acorn Business Computer (brochure photograph).jpg).
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It gives no circuit, power supply or service information.
Related Acorn documents
[edit | edit source]These cover parts of the ABC design and are linked from the model pages:
- Acorn's ACW 443 Service Manual (0420,001, January 1987) for the Acorn Cambridge Workstation, which is the ABC 210 relaunched with a 20 MB disc in the same case. It covers the case, power supply, Microvitec monitor and disassembly, with the parts lists and circuit diagram of the BBC B+ derived I/O processor board. Hosted on this wiki and described on Acorn Cambridge Workstation Documentation.[2][3]
- Acorn's Z80 Second Processor Service Manual, for the Z80 card used in the ABC 100 and 110, which Chris Whytehead says is the same card as in the Acorn Z80 second processor.[4] A copy is on Chris's Acorns.[5]
- The 32016 second processor documents, for the processor family used in the ABC 200 and 210.
- The BBC Microcomputer Service Manual October 1985 Section 2, for the BBC Model B+ from which the ABC main board was derived.[3]
Pages that cite these documents
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Download: Acorn Business Computer brochure (APP01).pdf
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "New Acorn micro", Acorn User, October 1984, pp. 7 and 9. Scan via Chris's Acorns.
- ↑ Acorn Computers, ACW 443 Service Manual, reference 0420,001, issue 1, January 1987. Hosted on this wiki: File:Acorn ACW 443 Service Manual.pdf; source PDF via Chris's Acorns.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Whytehead, Chris. "Acorn Business Computer", Chris's Acorns (retrieved 2026-10-01).
- ↑ Whytehead, Chris. "Acorn Business Computer ABC110", Chris's Acorns (retrieved 2026-10-01).
- ↑ Chris's Acorns, "Acorn Manuals" (retrieved 2026-10-01): Z80 Second Processor Service Manual; Winchester Disc 110 and 130 Service Manual; ACW443 Service Manual.