Splitting the Acorn Atom | Trash to Treasure (pt1)
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Acorn's first foray into the pre-built, wedge micro world was the Atom in 1980. Going head to head with Sinclair's ZX80 it was an interesting debut which balanced cost with features, and gave us a glimpse into the computing magic that the company would go on to conjur up in the years ahead. Today we take a broken old Atom and learn all about it in our quest to turn Trash to Treasure.
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00:00 The British Micro Industry in 1980
04:52 Enter the Acorn Atom
06:03 PCBway.com are ATOMIC
06:31 Atom continued
07:19 Splitting open the Atom
14:57 The Atom's reception
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