[Gllug] Free to good home: Acorn A680 (complete)

Caroline Ford caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 21 12:30:59 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:28 +0100, Sarah Lemarié wrote:
> Hello - long time no post :)
> 
> I've been quietly lurking away; however I've reason to post all of a
> sudden as I've been charged with homing what is apparently an Acorn
> A680, and I suspect I might find somebody with an interest in such a
> thing around here.
> 
> I'll keep it brief; if you're interested get in touch and I'll be
> happy to answer any questions.
> 
> I was only given the machine, with no paperwork to identify it, but
> booting and poking on it has led me to believe it's an A680 - they
> were fairly rare development machines for RISCiX. The display,
> keyboard, two mice, and all the cables you need plus some more are
> available. It boots to some extent..but you may need to work on it to
> make it do anything, I'm not familiar enough with old Acorns to
> comment, closest I ever came was using at A3000 :)
> 

You can't throw it out! Arrgh. I'll take it if no-one else wants it, and
could someone take some photos for Wikipedia?

Thanks

caroline

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