A quick tip-off from our very own John "moss" Hoare points us at the Guardian today, which has an article about the Iyonix and how RISC OS could be set to make a comeback.
The article makes an interesting read, and outlines the Iyonix and gives quick mentions to Virtual Acorn and the Omega.
If you want to have a read of the article without buying the newspaper, you can find it on the Guardian website.
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Paul Vigay |
Message #91558, posted by pvigay at 14:26, 16/12/2002 |
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Who's going to be the first pedantic so-and-so to point out that they spelt RISC OS incorrectly? :-) |
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John Hoare |
Message #91559, posted by moss at 14:31, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91558 |
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I did in the General form :-) |
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John Hoare |
Message #91560, posted by moss at 14:31, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91559 |
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Or even forum. |
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Kevin Wells |
Message #91561, posted by Revin Kevin at 14:34, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91560 |
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You. |
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Horse |
Message #91562, posted at 15:53, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91561 |
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When were anonymous comments switched back on? I love them! The Guardian article: playing on nostalgia, isn't it? Perhaps more people would buy an Iyonix if salespeople targeted punters in the 25-50 year old male demographic by whispering "Psion, Sinclair, Acorn, hmmm, isn't it?" into their ears. |
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John Hoare |
Message #91563, posted by moss at 16:13, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91562 |
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> When were anonymous comments switched back on? I love them! Why? > The Guardian article: playing on nostalgia, isn't it? Perhaps more people would buy an Iyonix if salespeople targeted punters in the 25-50 year old male demographic by whispering "Psion, Sinclair, Acorn, hmmm, isn't it?" into their ears. Well yes; but you can't help the facts. The contact a lot of people would have had with Acorns is in the past; to ignore it would be a bit silly. It has plenty of forward-thinking stuff too :-) |
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Cheese monger |
Message #91564, posted at 16:13, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91563 |
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They've also mis-typeset ARM. I see they mention Drobe, but not The Iconbar in the links at the bottom, too :) |
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Horse |
Message #91565, posted at 17:04, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91564 |
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So, what I was saying about trading on nostalgia, the British computing industry, new and exciting microcomputers, colour graphics, the British Empire... ahem! Yes, they should think about using such devices for promotion. |
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Andrew Sidwell |
Message #91566, posted by takkaria at 19:59, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91565 |
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TIB got news drobe didn't. That makes a change. andy/takka. |
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Brian |
Message #91567, posted at 22:39, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91566 |
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Where in the Guardian newspaper was the article or was it only on the online version. I looked and looked today !!! |
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gcse.com |
Message #91568, posted at 23:10, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91567 |
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Nice to see riscos.org getting a link from the Guardian, and not riscos.com! |
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Matthew Somerville |
Message #91569, posted by Matthew at 23:26, 16/12/2002, in reply to message #91568 |
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Only online I think. I didn't see anything in the paper version, either. Certainly, the Online section is on Thursdays, not Mondays. |
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John Hoare |
Message #91570, posted by moss at 12:53, 17/12/2002, in reply to message #91569 |
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Well, let's hope it's printed on Thursday too :-) It *was* top of the Online section, for a while... |
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John Hoare |
Message #91571, posted by moss at 18:08, 20/12/2002, in reply to message #91570 |
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Tsk. Wasn't printed. Ah well. |
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