DEF PROCmemorabilia
There is much Acorn memorabilia from the Electron-era that still survives today! Check out some Elks living with other folks too.
A good example of this are the badges that were produced as promotional items by Acornsoft, for their various titles.
The badge on the end was a promotional one for the BBC Micro; do we know if any exist for the Electron too?
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Of course, memorabilia of today can be yesterdays promotional material of all kinds; this leaflet was
one that advertises the new Acorn Electron in all its' wonder and glory!
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Known Acornsoft game badges
Large badges
Snapper ("i'm a happy snapper")
Monsters ("i dig monsters")
Monsters [red monster] ("some of my best friends are monsters")
Arcadians [Alien picture] (no text)
Starship Command ("i'm a starship commander")
Rocket Raid [Rocket picture] (no text)
[Meanie] ("I'm the meanest Meanie")
JCB Digger [a JCB digger] ("I dig Meanies")
Small badges
Maze ("join the maze craze")
Labyrinth ("get lost!")
Aviator ("some of my best friends are aviators")
Firebug? ("i'm a fire fighting fred")
Q'Bert ("watch it! i'm a bouncer!")
Magic Mushrooms ("mines the meanesr mushroom screen)
[Meanie] ("I'm the meanest Meanie")
If you know of any other Acornsoft badges that I have missed,
please get in touch!
Here is a collection of badges from Acorn-nut Dave Moore!
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These two photographs kindly provided by Michael Sadler of his Acorn badges
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These pins belong to Dave the Drummer; one was given to him by the head of Acorn at one of the shows!
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Cameron Bell kindly provided these photographs of his collection; I'm intrigued by the top badge in the middle photograph
as it is in a different style to the other Acornsoft ones I have seen. Can anyone shed any light on it?
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The incredible badge collection of Bill Carr, who has kindly sent in these five photographs!
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May I introduce you all to 07-ALA01-0022107, 07-ALA01-0108002 & 04-ALA11-1014757
....Acorn Electrons belonging to Rob Stradling
Here's an Electron that Mike Keeling has had since 1986! Serial 02-ALA01-00-43185.
I am exceptionally jealous of the fact that he had the Master RAM Board fitted in '86.... It took me three around three decades to finally get the MRB into my own Elk!
May I present to you 07-ALA01-46233, belonging to Stephen Preston.
As you can see, this Elk is seriously souped-up and features a Turbo board, AP6, AP5 (new design, RH), external sound, MMC, Mega Games Cart (Retro Hardware) and CFIDE Hard Drive!
May I present to you some of the Elk collection of Acorn Electron Forever's Anthony Ogden! This is one seriously Elk-addicted fellow!
Not memorabilia yet, but maybe one day... here's a space-elk that i designed and had 3D printed as a kind of mascot (complete with acorn head and sonic tail)
