My Risc PC is on the shelf next to me and theres an A3000 in the cupboard....those were the days.

I think "microsoft happened", Acorn had the education market sewn up (in the UK), but then seemed to get sidetracked with the network computer and things just went a bit pear shaped from there.

Hugo was somewhat of an archimedes god, he wrote the tracker module player and various demos (infact, I've got the source code to some of them kicking around here!), lots of commercial software through his company "the serial port" and my personal favourite ARCterm7.

Risc OS was a great operating system, the api was hugely extensive and was the first machine that I ever programmed properly, my love of ARM processors goes way back to when ARM stood for "Acorn Risc Machine".

Pity that they're no longer around, first computer I ever used was a BBC B (Made by Acorn) at primary school.....ahhh, the memories.