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'''Acorn''' was a [[computer]] manufacturer in the [[United Kingdom]] from 1978 - 1998, based in [[Cambridge]], home to many UK computer companies at that time. From 1981 to 1994 the company had an extremely lucrative relationship with the [[BBC]], producing the BBC Micro and Master range of computers, whilst the BBC ran a series of educational programmes on British television about computing. These machines were almost ubiquitous in UK [[schools]] and some public sector institutions and utilities, including British Rail, one of the largest users of IT systems in Britain in the 1980s. Eventually, however, the dominance of the Windows/X86 PC platform, and its lower cost, led to collapse of Acorn, and the dramatic decline of the computing platform it developed.
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