ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2019 Entry 5th January 2019: Post 02: Acorn A3020 - With the Bury'd hard drive Acorn A3020 - With the Bury'd hard drive Not a spelling mistake. Thing about Acorn computers is that when the battery goes dead you lose the ability for the computer to self boot. You also lose the hard drive as an active mounted drive. So the trick is to hit the 'DELETE' key when you switch on and eventually up pops the OS. Next you have to activate the configuration application and the from there you toggle the IDE with the arrow to add a drive and then click OK. Ignore the warning and hopefully your hard drive if fitted will appear. In the case the hard drive of 'Bury' CE school. I am assuming the seller on Ebay obtained this drive from the school. So many Acorns I have originated from schools. Nothing much on the drive but still a good piece of memorabilia from the Acorn school era. I removed the battery myself some time back and saved the Acorn from a slow agonising death. She gets checked once in a while. I have this old Amstrad black and white monitor I use. This was just one of the many Acorns that I have that was tested. The A3020 has the red keys which kinda pays homage to the BBC era with the red keys on the Model B. Works fine. Cleaned the vent slots again which are a pig to keep tidy. Otherwise no great issues. Acorn A3020 with 2MB RAM and fitted with an 80MB IDE. Uses an ARM 250 processor and was released in September 1992 for £1000. Acorn A3020

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