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Acorn A7000+

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Introduction

The A7000+ was launched in May 1997. It is an upgraded A7000 , the main changes were:

I know of 3 versions of the A7000+:

 After Acorn closed down their workstation division, Castle bought the rights to the A7000 and RiscPCs and continued to make them and produced further upgraded models such as the A7000+ Odyssey.

Documents and Manuals

Here is the Acorn A7000+ product brochure.
Here is the A7000+ Welcome Guide.

A7000+

I bought my A7000+ (AMC10) in September 2004 on ebay. The A7000+ has an ANT Issue 2 Combi Network Card (10Base2 and 10BaseT) installed.
 
Here are some pictures:

A7000+ running RISC OS 3.71

 A7000+ running RISC OS 3.71

A7000+ running RISC OS 3.71. This model doesn't have a CD-ROM drive.

A7000+ logo

 A7000+ logo

The only visible difference between an A7000 and an A7000+ is the '+' sign.

A7000+ back

 A7000+ (back)

The "knob" at the top right has been added to allow the A7000 to be physically secured to a desk or other secure object. Below the knob is the serial number with the podule slot blanking plate to its right. At the bottom are the ports, from left to right: reset switch, audio out, video out, keyboard, mouse, BNC and RJ45 Ethernet, printer and serial ports.

A7000+ open

 A7000+ with top cover removed

At the front left is the floppy disc drive. In the middle is the space for a CD-ROM drive or a single podule. At the back on the right is the power supply. In the middle at the back, partially covered by the drive support is the network card.

A7000+ motherboard

 A7000+ motherboard

At the front left is the 4MB SIMM with the backplane slop on the right. In the middle are the RISC OS 3.71 ROMs. The square chip above and to the right is the ARM7500FE. In the middle is the socket for the network card with a gap in the back of the case for the BNC and RJ45 connectors.

Specification:

Serial No.80-AMC10-1010281
Unique identity0050A401AFA6
Motherboard part no.1102,200
CPU TypeCirius Logic ARM7500FE
CPU ModelPS750FE-QC-A
CPU Clock48MHz
Memory ControllerIOMD
Memory8MB on board
4MB EDO SIMM
Memory Clock32MHz
Video ControllerVIDC20
Floppy Disc DriveSony MPF920-H
Hard Disc Controlleron board IDE
Hard Disc Drive1.2GB Fujitsu M1636TAU
Backplane Modeln/a
Backplane part non/a
Podule 0n/a
NICANT Issue II Combi NIC
OSRISC OS 3.71
OS Date19 Feb 1997
SICK v1.22
Dhrystone/sec
kWhetstones/sec
 
47548
5297
ARMSi v4.0
MIPS
28.41