Press Cuttings: May 1995

Corporate

• European PC sales (including Acorn) beat US sales for Qtr 1 1995.
• Further report on £17.2m raised from share issue.

Product

• Nursery World reviews favourably Acorn's Early Year's hard/software and Wyddfa's Spoken Word and Talking Pictures.
• Micro Computer Mart reviews Photobase: The Decades - a series of CD ROMs on modern history from Longman Logotron.
• Daily Telegraph, TES, Computer Shopper and Personal Computer World all give thumbs up to RiscPC 486 card.
• TES reports launch of Junior Insight from Longman Logotron - software to analyse graphically, scientific data collected in schools.
• TES reviews sensor switch kits and software for primary schools.
• British Meat launch Fast Food Diner - simulation of fast food business.
• Longman Logotron add further 2 titles to Landmarks series.
• SEMERC launches Front End - software giving individual/group users personalised entry to any number of Acorn files - review of software in Micro Computer Mart.
• Micro Computer Mart - review of Talking Animated Alphabet from Sherston Software.
• Micro Computer Mart - review of new Logo software, called WinLogo from Longman Logotron.
• I³ launch Datasafe - new tape backup system for RISC systems.
• Junior Education reviews Cars - Maths in Motion from Cambridgeshire Software House and Ancient Egypt from Chalksoft.
• EPI Today reports on the coming of CD-Recordable technology.
• Computer Buyer reports on use of Sibelius 7 to play music by Ligeti which no human can perform as it is too difficult!
• Computer Shopper announces free CD ROM drive offer from Acorn with every A4000 system bought (until end June).
• Data Harvest launch range of products using Acorn systems for monitoring / controlling scientific experiments in schools.

Education

• Yorkshire Post reviews current use of computers in the classroom.
• Acorn and Saffron Walden High School collaborate on joint project to develop new teaching materials.
• 15-year old at Sedgefield Community College wins competition run by Acorn User to design a page for the magazine - the school also came second in international Young Enterprise competition in Holland.
• Acorn launch Making IT Work - A Video Guide for Primary Schools.
• Article in Sunday Times gives advice to parents and teachers on the choice of hardware and software.
• St Peter's Grove Methodist School, Canterbury wins 3rd prize in national newspaper design competition organised by the Newspaper Society.
• Acorn systems used by schools entering Calderdale's Great Egg Race competition.
• Micro Computer Mart on SEMERC's new CD ROM for schools - Technology and Design.
• TES reviews issues worrying teachers as multimedia expands.
• Forest School, Snaresbrook invests £1/2m in Acorn and associated technology - including Internet.
• Parents Information Network, Tower Hamlets, run computer workshop with Acorn to show parents and children how to get the best from their computers.
• Daily Telegraph reports turnover at RM up 17% to £34m for 6 months to end March 1995.
• Guardian - Chris Davis answers readers' questions on how to stop pupils deleting Acorn programs/files.
• Swansea Evening Post reports on A3020 given to Waunarlwydd School thanks to the efforts of its PTA.
• RM launches low cost software allowing computers, including Acorn, to connect to Internet.
• TES reviews rising standards in multimedia work.
• Private Education supports use of Acorn systems as best choice for schools.
• William Poel (.net) argues that the PC is more appropriate these days than Acorn for use in schools.
• Internet Business News and PC Home report on Project Connect - a project, of which Acorn is a major sponsor, to get several hundred schools connected to the Internet.

Computers for Schools '95

• 11 Scottish papers carried announcements of this year's Computers for Schools Scheme.
• English papers announcing scheme included:
  Swanley Times
  Goole Howden Thorne Courier
  Kentish Times Leader
  Scarborough Evening News
  North West Evening Mail
• 10 local papers reported on individual Tesco stores inviting schools to come and paint a mural.
• 12 other local papers reported on schools invited to prepare posters promoting this year's scheme.
• Staff at Tesco, Ryde, dress up as teachers to promote scheme.
• CTW announces Computers for Schools Scheme as "A class acts returns".
• Over 220 cuttings were received from schools asking for vouchers to be passed to them.
• Dundee Evening Telegraph reported on Dundee store working with local school to study access to the store for the disabled.
• The Scotsman runs competition in conjunction with scheme offering A4000 multimedia system as prize.
• Perth Grammar School sets up classroom in Perth Tesco store to show customers how computers are used in schools - similar schemes were run in the Ely and Norwich stores.
• Tesco, Watford, launch competition for pupils to write an essay entitled Computers in the Year 2000.
• Tesco, Andover, runs competition giving pupils the chance to win 400 vouchers for their school.
• Take & Break runs competition offering £1600 worth of vouchers as prizes.
• Great Yarmouth Mercury launches competition offering £250 of vouchers as prizes.
• Micro Computer Mart reports on this year's Computers for Schools Scheme.
• Tesco, Norwich, runs project with local school to find out what shoplifting costs stores.
• Dr Alan Bosely, consultant paediatrician, appeals for vouchers in North Devon Gazette and North Devon Journal to help teenager suffering from cystic fibrosis.
• Ex-Tesco worker in Exmouth given permission to collect vouchers to help her 9-year-old son suffering from heart condition.
• Greenock Telegraph reported that by 30th May, 2 stores in south west Scotland had handed out over 46,500 vouchers.
• Promotions & Incentives report that Vouchers not used this year can be carried forward to 1996 scheme.
• Parents magazine announces Computers for Schools Scheme.

TES Newspaper Day Awards

• Blackburn Telegraph reports on success of St Barnabas School, Darwen, who won £600 of software.
• Worcester Evening News reports King's School shortlisted as one of 12 finalists in competition.
• Hereford Times reports on commendation won by Bredenbury School in competition.
• Tavistock Times Gazette also reports that Tavistock College also highly commended.
• TES reports on visit to Westminster of Whitby Community College who won the secondary school prize and received an Acorn RiscPC for their efforts.
• TES reports on success of this year's competition.

Home/Enthusiast

• Herald (Harrogate) reported which personalities would be attending Acorn User Spring Show.
• CTW taken to task for ignoring publications of Nexus Media - including Archimedes World.
• Chat launches competition offering 5 Early Years systems as prizes to readers.
• CTW, Media Week and UKPG take a look at IDG, the world's largest publisher of IT magazines, including Acorn User.
• Suffolk Business feature on Castle Technology run by John and Jack Lillingston.
• Computer Shopper - reader begs for Archimedes Shopper section not to be dropped.
• Computer Shopper reported on Acorn's presence at Cebit 95 show in Hannover.
• Computer Shopper - Jim Nagel extols virtues of Acorn systems compared to PC's.
• Good Housekeeping suggests how to use your computer at home to make serious money with DTP.

Publishing

• Screen & Display and Sign World both report on introduction of NovaJet III large format colour ink-jet printer for use with Acorn's publishing system.
• Creative Technology takes long look at Acorn's publishing system.

Australia

• Synapase reviews Sibelius 7.

New Zealand

• The Press, Computerworld NZ, NZ Herald and The Dominion announce launch of Pocket Book II.
• The Dominion announces launch of second generation set-top box from Online Media.
• Mike Matson of 4Mation interviewed on growth of CD ROM software for the consumer market.
• Pressure increases for Maori language resources in software.
• Report on 2 South Auckland schools using their Pocket Books for field work.

International

• Article by Bob Coates on the possible role of computers in South African education.

ARM Ltd

• IW Electronics + Technology interviews Robin Saxby on the dynamics of joint ventures.
• Electronics Times reports ARM6 to continue to be used in 3DO video games consoles.
• ATML planning deals with DEC to use StrongArm processors for next generation of networking chips.
• Computing awards ARM700 prize for excellence in UK IT Innovation of the Year.
• Financial Times reports on funding that helped companies like ARM to develop.
• Duracell working with ARM to develop standards for battery sizes and connections.
• Computer Shopper reports on Thumb - 32-bit operations squeezed to 16-bit width.
• Apple considering switching from ARM to to PC architecture for new PDA's.
• Robin Saxby appointed chairman of Open Microprocessor Systems Initiative.
• ARM announces the new ARM7500.

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