The Acorn Archimedes A3000 was replaced by the Acorn A3010 and A3020, two simililar but slightly different models, aimed at the home and educational market.
For the first time, the A3010 was sold in electrical retail stores, next to the Amiga A1200 and Atari Falcon 030, as well as 486 class PCs which where starting to become popular in UK homes.
The Acorn A3010 had two Atari style joystick ports, green function keys and, previously unheard of in the Archimedes family, an RF port for TV, which the A3020 did not have.
There was a little known rare German version of the A3010 which had grey rather than green keys and a German QWERTZ keyboard.
Information supplied by Jonathan Hayward
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NAME
Archimedes A3010
MANUFACTURER
Acorn Computer
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
United Kingdom
YEAR
1992
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
BBC BASIC / RISC OS 3.11
KEYBOARD
Full-stroke PC-102 style
CPU
ARM 250 32-bit RISC
SPEED
12 Mhz
CO-PROCESSOR
MEMC (memory), VIDC (Video and Sound), IOC (I/O)
RAM
1 MB (up to 4 MB possible with socketed zip ram chips)
ROM
1 MB
GRAPHIC MODES
VGA 640x256, SVGA 800x600, up to 1152 x 896 dots
COLORS
16 (SVGA) up to 256 (VGA) among 4096
SOUND
8 voices syntesizer
I/O PORTS
Centronics, RS423, VGA, 1 expansion slot (same as A3000, A3020 and A4000)
