The official Acorn biography, Voices from a Future Passed, put together by Rob Napier, will be available to buy from 1st March.
The book outlines the history of Acorn Computers Ltd – the company that brought us the BBC Micro home computer, amongst many others, and designed the original ARM processor. The ARM first became the heart of their next generation of computers before going on to dominate the world when it came mobile and low-power processing; there are now many times more ARMs in the world than there are, well, arms.
In order to produce the book, Rob spoke to the people that were there, encouraging them to tell him their stories about their time at Acorn, with each of those stories then forming chapters in the book.
Voices from a Future Passed, ISBN 9 781764 460804, will be available to purchase from Amazon from 1st March, priced at £19.95 in the UK, €22.95 in the EU, $26.95 in the USA, $39.95 in Australia, and $46.95 in New Zealand – with p&p to be added if applicable; this may vary depending where you are ordering from. A share of the sales price will be donated to the following museums:
- The Australian Computer Museum
- The Centre for Computing History
- The Computer History Museum
- The National Museum of Computing
- Techvana – The New Zealand Computer Museum
If you don’t want to order online, you will also be able to purchase copies at the various museums – so why not spend a day exploring the one nearest to you, and purchase a copy of the book at the same time?
