FS: Acorn Archimedes A3010

[Macc]

Acorn A3010 RISC OS Computer | eBay

[Macc]

SOLD!

[Gryzor]

Ended for 50 pounds!

[Macc]

It was a BIN, seemed about the right kind of price

[Gryzor]

Actually that was quite cheap if you ask me...

[Macc]

Maybe if i could have been bothered to replace the FDD I would have sold it for more but the small amount of time I spent on it it seemed I had to take the entire motherboard assembly out just to get at the screws holding the FDD in place, and there was a LOT of screws!!  Aint got the time or patience and they are a bugger to put back together!

[Munchausen]

I got one of these about 5 years ago for a few pounds in a charity shop. Seemed dead, but eventually I removed the 4MB RAM upgrade and got the jumpers figured out (which took an age) and it booted


It then took me forever to figure out how to (1) jumper it correctly for the RAM upgrade and (2) realise that one of the RAM chips in the upgrade was the wrong way around (I would have figured that out sooner, but they were in an odd package that I hadn't seen before).


It also has a 2.5" HDD interface, so it was a steal really.


Unfortunately I still haven't gotten around to getting a mouse for it (they are scary expensive on ebay, but I think they are more-or-less compatible with the atari protocol, and so should even be able to work with one of bryce's PS/2 adapters), and it doesn't seem to respond to suggested keyboard shortcuts, so maybe the keyboard or something else is dead. One of these days I'll figure it out. Still itching to play some multi player moon/mars quake!

[MacDeath]

Love this Amstrad PLUS look...

[db6128]

I sold an A3000 for something like £30 before. I think it was partly disassembled and lacking the FDD, but maybe that was still a bit on the cheap side.

I'm not sure why I kept the FDD, possibly because I thought it might be suitable for the CPC without modification or a special cable, which I don't think was true. In fact, I think the Archimedes might have a slightly non-standard drive, but I don't know for sure.

I'd like eventually to get another Archimedes of some sort, perhaps. Although my young self never got much into BBC Basic, I intended to (like a million other things) as there were a few things that appealed to me (albeit also a few that distinctly did not, like endless cryptic VDU and *OSCLI commands), and considering that I had always owned really old computers before that, the sheer speed of the A3000's BASIC seemed like a revelation to me. Besides all that, I'll eventually have to learn assembly language for something after the Z80, so maybe RISC would be a worthwhile candidate. But then... a Raspberry Pi might be more appropriate! I dunno.

I like the green keys on yours. And... the fact that it's not really yellow like mine was.