For what it’s worth, there’s at least one ACW from inside Acorn with a 4Meg ARM Evaluation board fitted.
It’s also has the back panel hacked about to provide an outlet socket for the Mouse board it’s had fitted.
It’s badged (and ISTR serialled) as an ACW. Which never had a mouse interface as an option - that was just the ABC 300 series (80286), and I can’t see why they’d re-badge one of those.
Feel free to speculate as to what an ARM/mouse combo was doing in one of these (could have just been a Frankenstein machine knocked up out of spares, of course).
So far as I can remember the HDD had been wiped, so there’s no software clue…
It’s also has the back panel hacked about to provide an outlet socket for the Mouse board it’s had fitted.
It’s badged (and ISTR serialled) as an ACW. Which never had a mouse interface as an option - that was just the ABC 300 series (80286), and I can’t see why they’d re-badge one of those.
Feel free to speculate as to what an ARM/mouse combo was doing in one of these (could have just been a Frankenstein machine knocked up out of spares, of course).
So far as I can remember the HDD had been wiped, so there’s no software clue…
Statistics: Posted by Boydie — Wed Feb 11, 2026 9:38 pm