I don't get my A3000 out often, but I would never part with it. It is a fantastic machine. My school probably was one of the last to jump to PC. (probably due to be a Cambridgeshire school). They still had Acorn machines when I left in 1998.

Anyway anyone who is curious and has a spare Raspberry PI around can install the RISC OS on it.

I have a RiscPC with Kinetic accelerator with extra RAM and USB, but it's mostly unused. I should see to a way to transfer its contents to a Raspberry Pi image.

I find the Acorn Archimedes machines to be incredibly entreating, I never saw one here in Australia, and when I was at school I know of one person in my whole school who used to try to tell me they were better than Amigas - but he also used to say the same thing about the Apple Mac Plus, so I didn't take much notice of him.

I'd particularly appreciate any information or links that can go into detail regarding it's operating system and advantages/drawbacks when compared with the Amiga range, so I can add it to my web site as another machine that the Amiga competed against during it's lifetime.

The Acorn Archimedes is in away still here, everyone uses one without knowing it, Acorn redeveloped its CPU and turned it into a well known SoC now called ARM, ARM SoCs are used in Mobile Phones and Tablets, the Raspberry PI and in Mini Consoles so its still here just under a different name, ARM did stand for Acorn RISC Machines but because Apple put money into the company ARM Holdings(so they could make the iPad and iPhone) they had to changed it to `Advanced RISC Machines`, RISC(Reduced instruction set computer) was the name for the Acorn Archimedes CPU and its OS.

Acorn do not make computers any more but they still design CPU ARM SoCs under the name ARM Holdings so when you see a iPhone or a Samsung Galaxy S22/Zfold/Flip or Android phone/tablet its CPU is part of the Acorn Archimedes Architecture, where would we be now if they never made Acorn Archimedes Computer in 1987, its just a shame they marketed it just for schools but that probably why they got away with it looking like the Amiga because it was not really made for home use, I did have one, the Acorn Archimedes A3000(mine had green F keys on it)that looked like the Amiga A500 but I used the Amiga more... :)