ScuzzBlog: Diaries April 2018 Entry 24th April 2018: Post: 1 Acorn Atom - Build your own Checking the kit yet again which I do on a regular basis. Today it was the turn of the Acorn Atom. I won this computer on 19th July 2007 in the days when Ebay was an auction site and not the ' Buy Now ' for bonkers priced kit. There were seven bids and I got the Atom for £87.86. The Acorn Atom described as the forerunner to the BBC Micro was a build it yourself kit with a 6502 CPU. The unit is fully expanded with 12K RAM and 12K ROM. Some quite massive numbers there.The TV output is monochrome. Was sold with some great books including Atomic Theory and Practice. Also came with the PSU. The computer generally works fine. For some reason I have a garbelled screen when I boot which clears when I press break. The BASIC is Atom BASIC is a variant on what I would call the norm. Takes a little getting use to be generally OK. ACORN ATOM Made in the UK around 1980 Keyboard is a full stroke QWERY with 60 keys The CPU is the 6502 running at 1MHz Has the 6847 video display generator Text mode is 32 x 24 / 16 x 12 Graphics mode - 4 colours Colours 8 Sound is from a built in small beeper The kit in day would set you back £120 and ready built £170 See also - Acorn Atom - Didn't bomb Small broken piece of case inside case

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