[XaraXtreme-dev] OT: Acorn History (was: Interview with Charles)

[John-Mark Bell <jmb202@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> I've been thinking that somebody really should write the Acorn story. They 
> were amazing machines in so many ways. The BBC Micro MOS was an amazing bit 
> of code.

http://www.mcmordie.co.uk/acornhistory/index.shtml

> > I have a document dated 1987 that very briefly describes the plan for
> > what was to become Artworks, which is the direct predecessor of Xara
> > Xtreme today. So this software goes back a long, long way.
>
> Is anyone archiving this stuff? Do we need an equivalent of archive.org for 
> Acorn stories?

Not that I'm aware of. There's bits and pieces in various locations but no 
central resource afaia. drobe.co.uk may be interested in archiving stuff 
(they already carry mirrors of many of the main sites from time immemorial ;)

HTH,


John.