Thanks for posting the talk and slides, and to Rob for the presentation. Watching this now, I see that the "Acorn System 75" stuff has been removed from the Acorn Wikipedia article. It had been introduced by the usual unidentified Internet person back in 2012. Of course, the section in which it appears has a prominent banner suggesting that the content might need improvement.
One can easily be dismissive of Wikipedia, but I find that the problems tend to be caused by people scrawling things they "know" without any citations. As for the Acorn article, another factor includes occasional vandalism, with one person repeatedly grinding their axe about what I might call "unfinished business" from Acorn's network computing era. But we know who that is and even which country they tend to post from.
One can easily be dismissive of Wikipedia, but I find that the problems tend to be caused by people scrawling things they "know" without any citations. As for the Acorn article, another factor includes occasional vandalism, with one person repeatedly grinding their axe about what I might call "unfinished business" from Acorn's network computing era. But we know who that is and even which country they tend to post from.
Statistics: Posted by paulb — Wed Jan 28, 2026 9:27 pm