Acorn Internal emails

Emails sent to Acorn employees

This edited selection of emails are from the first 3 months of 1996, this was a very busy time for Acorn with new divisions being created (Network Computing) and the creation of Xemplar with Apple that absorbed Acorn Education.

If anyone has any more internal emails or similar, please get in touch.

• 19960115 "more info on the Oracle deal."
  InforWorld Electric article on Oracle/Acorn NC deal.
• 19960122 "Acorn Education/ART/OM project data"
  Archiving of projects, long list of projects included.
• 19960122 "Access to the DO fileserver"
  The layout of the DO server, containing docs and drawings.
• 19960122 "New project"
  "MediaPass" : EC Project 21xxx : MediaPass
• 19960126 "New project"
  "Dante" : 7500 Development Systems Sofware
• 19960128 "Data moves and changes"
  More project archives being moved between servers.
• 19960130 "ART organisational announcement"
  ART gains resonsibility for the International and Enthusiast markets.
• 19960130 "Organisation Structure"
  Creation of the "Network Computing Division" to work on the NC project.
• 19960202 "Urgent re Germany contract"
  130 RISC OS ROMS for German MOD are around somewhere.
• 19960202 "Your New Role in The New Organisation"
  Impact of creation of the new Network Computing Division on employees.
• 19960203 "Data moved"
  More project archives being moved between servers.
• 19960203 "More data moved (the final lot!)"
  More project archives being moved between servers.
• 19960207 "Floating Point Support Product Statement"
  Faster ARM700 FPA support didn't work, does anyone want FPA at ARM3/FPA speeds?
• 19960207 "New Project Code"
  Development : Design and implement graphics library for RADAR.
• 19960208 "New project code"
  "Deevelopment" : Supply of demonstration equipement to ARM.
• 19960208 "Important - Please read"
  Mention of setup of Xemplar (known at this point as Newco).
• 19960208 "DO NOT PANIC!"
  Rebranding of ART from Applied Risc Technologies to Acorn Risc Technologies.
• 19960215 "new software for testing"
  Please test new browser and version of !Omni with IP support.
• 19960215 "Changes to our branding"
  Rebranding of ART from Applied Risc Technologies to Acorn Risc Technologies.
• 19960216 "New Logo"
  New logos due to division rename.
• 19960216 "Dealer event - 1 March"
  The dealers are coming to visit, all leave is cancelled!
• 19960219 "New Project Codes"
  "A7000 Milk" : Mid life kick for the A7000, "Hardware" : General hardware work, "H/W Support" : Hardware suport VARs, ART Sales etc.
• 19960221 "New Project"
  "ARM EMC" : ARM EMC Consultancy
• 19960227 "more bullshit from yours truly"
  Peter Bondar explains that the next Risc PC will be a PowerPC board with MacOS and an ARM card for RISC OS, based on the CHRP platform (this did not happen).
• 19960227 "RISC OS and StrongARM"
  Gathering information on what needs to be changed in RISC OS for StrongARM support.
• 19960228 "ART - Project Codes CLOSED"
  A long list of projects that it is no longer possible to book time/bill against.
• 19960229 "Price announcement: Pocket Book II 256K now #195"
  Did you know you can order PocketBook II in blocks of 1000 a time?
• 19960302 "FYI: email addresses for Acorn staff"
  How email addresses work in Acorn after changes to divisions.
• 19960305 "FYI: US and UK investors take increased stake in the Group"
  Olivetti reduce their stake in Acorn from 58.9% to 48.4%.
• 19960306 "New Project Code"
  "Panther" : ANC StrongARM work.
• 19960314 "On the lookout for code fragments..."
  Dave Walker, of Developer Support, is on the hunt for code examples.
• 19960314 "ART write up in Archive mag"
  Archive magazine is ebullient over ART.
• 19960319 "New Project Code"
  "Ashiv" : Paris Stock Exchange.
• 19960320 "New Arrangements from 25 March"
  Acorn are moving out of one of their offices.