Acorn Archimedes Retail Price List 1987
The High Performance Computer Systems Retail Price List is a one-page Acorn dealer price list for the Archimedes 300 and 400 series, with a companion one-page High Performance Computer Systems Pricing sheet. Neither sheet carries a date. They list the 300 and 400 series, which Personal Computer World reviewed in August 1987.[1]
The price list gives recommended retail prices excluding and including VAT. The pricing sheet repeats the machine prices excluding VAT only. Both describe the 300 series as "A British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer" and the 400 series as "An Acorn Computer".
Machine prices
[edit | edit source]| Product code | Model | Configuration | RRP ex VAT | RRP inc VAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKB10 | Archimedes 305 | Base | £799.00 | £916.60 |
| AKB10/AKF01 | Mono | £849.00 | £974.10 | |
| AKB10/AKF11 | Colour | £999.00 | £1146.60 | |
| AKB15 | Archimedes 310 | Base | £875.00 | £1004.00 |
| AKB15/AKF01 | Mono | £925.00 | £1061.50 | |
| AKB15/AKF11 | Colour | £1075.00 | £1234.00 | |
| AKB26 | Archimedes 410 | Base | £1399.00 | £1606.60 |
| AKB26/AKF01 | Mono | £1449.00 | £1664.10 | |
| AKB26/AKF11 | Colour | £1599.00 | £1836.60 | |
| AKB20 | Archimedes 440 | Base | £2299.00 | £2641.60 |
| AKB20/AKF01 | Mono | £2349.00 | £2699.10 | |
| AKB20/AKF11 | Colour | £2499.00 | £2871.60 |
"Mono" and "Colour" are the machine with a monochrome or colour monitor.
Upgrades and software
[edit | edit source]The upgrades listed are ADF10 Archimedes/Master Econet (£43.47 ex VAT), AKA51 0.5 MByte RAM (£89.00), AKD50 floppy disc (£125.00), AKD52 20 MByte hard disc and podule for the 300 series only (£499.00), AKA01 podule backplane (£39.00) and AKJ01 A Series Reference Manual (£19.95). The ROM podule (AKA05), I/O podule (AKA10) and MIDI add-on (AKA15) are marked TBA.
The software section prices View, ViewSheet, ViewStore, ViewSpell, ViewIndex, Comal, ANSI C, ISO-Pascal, Fortran 77, the Software Developer's Toolbox and Debug Tool, Prolog, Lisp, View Professional, Logistix, three terminal emulators and the game Zarch.
What these sheets do not cover
[edit | edit source]They cover only the 305, 310, 410 and 440. They do not include the A310M, the A400/1 series, the A3000, the A540 or the A5000, or any later price change. Chris's Acorns marks the AKB26 A410 as possibly never produced.[1]
Pages that cite this document
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Download: Acorn Archimedes Retail Price List 1987.pdf and the pricing sheet, Acorn Archimedes Pricing 1987.pdf.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Whytehead, Chris. "Archimedes", Chris's Acorns, archived by The Centre for Computing History. Source of both sheets; product codes AKB10 A305, AKB15 A310, AKB20 A440 and AKB26 A410 "(never produced?)"; Personal Computer World review of the Archimedes, August 1987.