I just found something rather odd. It's a review of a newish (2005) Acorn Archimedes clone, running RiscOS 5. If you're about my age and Irish or English, you may remember the Acorn Archimedes as that strange thing that your primary school got to replace their BBC Micros just before you finished primary school. Oh, it looked very modern and amazing at the time...
The review in question is of a 600MHz ARM machine (that's about the same as the old iPhone's processor) with 512MB RAM and a 120GB hard drive, costing 1300 pounds. Yep, that's pounds sterling; 1700 euro or 2500 dollars.
It's really, really odd to see something like this; I had assumed that the Archimedes was extremely dead. It even has a new operating system; RiscOS 5. I wonder just who, exactly, the target market is?
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