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Acorn Atom
,
a
6502
based
home computer
manufactured and released by
Acorn Computers Ltd
in 1980. It lacked a
disk drive
but had an integrated
keyboard
and
cassette interface
. The Atom had 2 KiB expandable to 12 KiB of
RAM
and 8 KiB expandable to 12 KiB of
ROM
including
Atom BASIC
[1]
. In late 1982, Acorn released an upgrade ROM which allowed users to switch between Atom BASIC and the more advanced
BBC BASIC
used by its successor, the
BBC Micro
. The
Motorola 6847
video chip provided text and graphics displayed on a
TV
or
video monitor
.
Acorn Atom
[2]
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[4]
Acorn Atom Technical Manual
from
Computing History
David Johnson-Davies
(
1980
).
Atomic Theory and Practice
.
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by Multiwizard,
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, November 13, 2015 »
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^
David Johnson-Davies
(
1980
).
Atomic Theory and Practice
.
^
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a 6502 based home computer manufactured and released by Acorn Computers Ltd in 1980. It lacked a disk drive but had an integrated keyboard and cassette interface. The Atom had 2 KiB expandable to 12 KiB of RAM and 8 KiB expandable to 12 KiB of ROM including Atom BASIC [1]. In late 1982, Acorn released an upgrade ROM which allowed users to switch between Atom BASIC and the more advanced BBC BASIC used by its successor, the BBC Micro. The Motorola 6847 video chip provided text and graphics displayed on a TV or video monitor.
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