Acorn Computers at Ideal Home 

Acorn Computers is appearing at the Ideal Home Exhibition showing off its 
wide range of computing solutions aimed specifically at the home user. 

Acorn is the only manufacturer of high quality 32-bit RISC computers 
starting from under #500, and last year won the coveted Queen's Award for 
Technological Achievement for the design and implementation of the ARM RISC 
processor found in every one of its Archimedes platforms. It is the market 
leader in Education and its computers are now found in the vast majority of 
schools across the UK. 

On the stand will be a wide representative selection of the Archimedes range 
of home computing solutions.  Centre stage will be two stations featuring a 
major new promotion in conjunction with Lotus Cars - the Lotus Turbo 
Challenge, which offers visitors the chance to win a trip around the Lotus 
factory and to try out the new Lotus Esprit S4; and for the ultimate 
champion, an all expenses paid trip to the Italian Grand Prix in September 
with a special pass to the Lotus Formula 1 team pits. 

Visitors to the stand will also be able to find out how computers can add a 
new dimension to music allowing you to create a studio in your own home. A 
range of software will be running which allows a home computer to "talk" to 
an instrumental keyboard and both produce a score automatically from notes 
played in on the keyboard as well as create complex compositions utilising a 
wide range of "voices" and effects on the instrument. 

Most people at one time or another have need of a range of tools including 
word processing, spreadsheets and database manipulation. Acorn's Learning 
Curve products are ideally suited with applications for the small business 
user right through to the society treasurer or secretary. On show at the 
Acorn stand will be word processing and desk top processing applications, 
which can use data imported directly from spreadsheets or databases and can 
easily be merged in to letters for mailshot purposes. 

Whilst Acorn computers feature the powerful RISC OS operating system, which 
allows many applications to run concurrently - multitasking with one another 
- they can also access PC programs swapping data with DOS applications. It 
is even possible to run Microsoft Windows inside a RISC OS window and for 
the two operating systems to use each other's data. 

Acorn Computers can be found on stand 312C on the first floor of the 
Exhibition Hall.  (Ends) 

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