Random Bit Of Retro Crap Of The Day #RBORCOTD

Here is an Acorn JP 101 printer. These were a re-badged Olivetti made printer. Of course, there was a period in Acorn's history when they were owned by Olivetti. This printer (known as SparkJet) used a cartridge of dry powdered ink...
#Acorn #printer

Random Bit Of Retro Crap Of The Day #RBORCOTD

An Acorn ARM 610 CPU card.

This may look like a standard run-of-the-mill main processor card from a RiscPC, but take a look at the connector. It is fitted with a 90-degree plug so that it sits low, adjacent to the m/b (not perpendicular) ...

Random Bit Of Retro Crap Of The Day #RBORCOTD

HCCS Vision Digitiser for Acorn A5000, RiscPC or A7000

I can't remember what the resolution was - not much. I did write a simple web cam app in BASIC to upload a pic to my website every 10 minutes.

#retro
#Acorn
#RISC_OS
#RiscPC
#A5000
#A7000

Random Bit Of Retro Crap Of The Day #RBORCOTD

#Acorn V34 modem podule card to fit an #RiscPC / #A7000.
A RiscPC I bought in (I think) 1999 was a J233 WebWonder. The last of the remaining stock of Acorn machines, with 233MHz StrongARM and modem. Although I think this particular podule is from an NC.