Hoogo wrote: ↑Sun 16 Feb 2025 00:02
Herbert123 wrote: ↑Sat 15 Feb 2025 23:02I am busy editing scans and stitching those by hand, and that's when I noticed the bug!
Wow, is that your precious?
Yes and no. I collect old 8 bit home computers from the 80s, and I FINALLY, after a few years of searching, found an affordable Acorn Atom last week on eBay. With mailing box, polies, accessories, complete documentation even! Last December one of those got caught in a bidding war, and sold for a ridiculous amount: more than 2000 British Pounds!!! I got mine for 340, but it also includes the original data recorder and some other materials.
So a pretty good deal.
What is missing is the blue cardboard box. Which makes sense, because the ones mailed out from the factory were sent out in a mailing box, while the ones sold in stores had the nice blue box. And those are exceedingly rare... And the Acorn Atom is quite rare by itself, since these were sold in 1980-1982 to hobbyists just before the home computer craze really began.
Anyway, I asked around on the stardot.org forums (the place for Acorn fans) whether someone would be willing to scan in their blue box, if someone owned one.
And someone did! So I am recreating a box to store the Atom in, and I will share the result with the others there - they can then have their own boxes printed.