The Town Square

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Hear ye! ... hear ye! ... hear ye!

Here in the town square, you'll find:
  • information about the status of these pages
  • announcements
  • what's new, and where to find it
  • etc.

    • Recent changes

    Thursday 28 September
  • Finally completed the Big Renaming. After the restructuring, most occurrences of 'Acorn Computers (Ltd)' had to be changed along with many other similar phrases. Out of interest, before the renaming, a search for the word 'Acorn' returned 3996 matches. Something like 650 had to be changed in some way.
  • New entries added to the Mentioned In Dispatches section
  • Some email addresses added to the dealer lists
  • [Olivetti Telemedia] now has a proper home page. So the existing links have been updated to point to that.
  • Acorn GmbH is no more, and has been removed.
  • Many other minor fixes spotted by helpful browsers - thanks go out to them!
  • PC software update report added.
    • Monday 25 September 1995
  • Added link to the home page for [Advance RISC Machines] to various pages.
    • Monday 18 September 1995
  • Added details of Acorn Centres of Technology to the Store and the [Clan private] pages.
    • Friday 15 September 1995
  • Added response to Daily Mail article
  • Added press release about Acorn Advantage
  • Added press release about Acorn restructuring
    • Tuesday 5 September 1995
  • Product information totally overhauled
  • New press release: Pocket Book Push For Autumn Term
  • New set of 'dispatches' (news clippings) from July.
  • Updated International Dealers List
  • Added link to PC486 card software update on software page
  • Other minor changes and corrections.
    • Thursday 31 August 1995
  • Press release about the 1Mb Pocket Book II
  • Updated information about Acorn World '95
    • Tuesday 8 August 1995
  • Added Acorn's guide to the use of IT in education - What's in IT for me?.
    • Monday 7 August 1995
  • Added details of the 1995 Christmas Card competition.
    • Friday 4 August 1995
  • Added section on Integrated Learning Systems.
    • Tuesday 1 August 1995
  • Added details of Acorn's new MD.
    • Thursday 27 July 1995
  • Added June newspaper clippings.
  • Added link to WCCE95 press release.
  • Added links to HTMLised appnotes.
  • Added link to APCS document.
    • Tuesday 25 July 1995
  • Removed remaining EBU visit date.
    • Friday 21 July 1995
  • Re-jigged the guide so that the products occupied a single page each, which then allowed the store pages to refer to them as well.
  • Added section to the Clan's future information about the forthcoming [!PC486 upgrade].
  • Totally changed the Customer Services page.
    • Thursday 20 July 1995
  • Removed Insight '95 information from the School and added link the new guide to products and services for education.
  • Updated the price lists as per the July 1995 price lists.
    • Friday 14 July 1995
  • Added information to [Clan Private pages] about new FileCore module.
    • Thursday 13 July 1995
  • Added press releases for the new machines.
  • Added list of NZ dealers to NZ page.
  • Bit about Blue Peter competition added to 'Mentioned in Dispatches' page.
  • Added details of nspark to the free software page and the Library's Reference section for decoding the Sparkives.
  • Other minor corrections and updates.
    • Friday 7 July 1995
  • Added questions 3, 4 and 5 to the FAQ to answer some of the problems to do with getting into the private Clan pages.
    • Thursday 6 July 1995
  • Removed statistics pages. They weren't providing enough useful information and the overhead of maintaining them was too high.
    • Monday 3 July 1995
  • May press cuttings added to 'dispatches' section.
  • Miscellaneous minor corrections and updates.
    • Thursday 29 June 1995
  • The signpost and Acorn town images should now be interlaced. If there are no problems, I will make more images interlaced.
  • Dealer pages updated. Also map of UK is now clickable.
  • Fixed a couple of the images on the Risc PC 600X page (in the University section).
  • HTML sprite (in app note section) changed to something that hopefully looks a little better.
  • 'Dispatches' section (in Newspaper) updated.
  • Fixed some spelling mistakes and tinkered about with the formatting.
    • Wednesday 21 June 1995
  • Some more minor formatting fixes.
  • More stuff added to the University section (including the Risc PC 600X page, which already existed but I forgot to link in!).
  • New press release added to the Newspaper press release section.
  • Acorn World 95 page added.
    • Tuesday 20 June 1995
  • Access statistics added to the "Who's responsible for this mess?" page.
  • Problem with posting forms explained in the FAQ.
    • Monday 19 June 1995
  • Site opens!
  • Many minor fixes in response to feedback.

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