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The Acorn Electron is a British-made microcomputer introduced in 1983, manufactured by Acorn Computers Ltd. The computer was intended to be a cheaper version of the BBC microcomputer. The computer has 32 kilobytes of RAM and a ROM in which the operating system and an interpreter for BASIC are loaded. Programs can be saved and loaded with a regular cassette recorder. The power supply is provided by an external adapter for 18 V. The computer can be connected to a television set or to a monitor. The CPU is a 6502A from MOS Technologies. The computer has a clock speed of 2 MHz when only the ROM is used, and 1 MHz or 0.5897 MHz when the RAM is used. This has to do with the fact that the machine does not have a separate graphics memory, but the graphics data is in main memory. That also means that when using some graphics modes, only about 20 KB of RAM remains. This micro was especially popular in Great Britain, where it was at one point the third best-selling home computer
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