Missed call Whatever happened to the Acorn Communicator?

When Acorn launched its 16-bit Communicator computer with a built-in modem, it struggled to get potential buyers to listen, as David Crookes explains

Acorn is best known for the BBC Micro, and for good reason. This iconic series of computers found a place in schools in the early 1980s as a way of teaching children how to code, and it was a key component for the BBC Computer Literacy Project. But while Acorn grew during this period (its profits reaching £8.6 million in July 1983, having been just £3,000 four years earlier), the home computer market soon went through a turbulent time. As a consequence, having already sensed a need to turn things around, Acorn’s co-founder Christopher Curry began looking to target business users with new machines and identified a potential gap in the market. It led to the production of what was the only 16-bit machine that Acorn ever made – a…

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