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Acorn Computers

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British company founded in 2006 unrelated to ARM

Acorn Computers Ltd was a British computer company based in Nottingham, England in the United Kingdom between 2006 and 2009. It licensed, in early 2006, the dormant Acorn Computers trademark from French company Aristide & Co Antiquaire De Marques. This company sold IBM PC compatible computers and had no connection to ARM, a spin-off from the original Acorn Computers.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Acorn Computers Ltd was a British computer company based in Nottingham, England in the United Kingdom between 2006 and 2009. It licensed, in early 2006, the dormant Acorn Computers trademark from French company Aristide & Co Antiquaire De Marques. This company sold IBM PC compatible computers and had no connection to ARM, a spin-off from the original Acorn Computers.2

Products and brands

  • computer hardware

Listed on Wikidata.1

The company sold a range of laptop computers. The systems used Microsoft Windows rather than the RISC OS operating system developed by the original Acorn Computers and this incarnation of Acorn did not support or license any technologies or products of the original, apart from the name and trademark.

The reuse of the Acorn Computers Ltd name caused an amount of confusion and controversy, particularly amongst users of the original company's products.

From Wikipedia’s article on Acorn Computers (2006), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 2009Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 2006Founded Founded1

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