''Acorn User'' magazine was founded by

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in 1982, contract-published by Addison-Wesley, to coincide with the launch of the

BBC Micro The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers in the 1980s for the BBC Computer Literacy Project. Designed with an emphas ...

. It covered the range of Acorn home computers, the BBC Micro and

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at first and later the

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, Archimedes and

Risc PC The Risc PC is Acorn Computers's RISC OS/ Acorn RISC Machine computer, launched on 15 April 1994, which superseded the Acorn Archimedes. The Acorn PC card and software allows PC compatible software to be run. Like the Archimedes, the Risc PC co ...

History

The first issue was dated July/August 1982. From the April 1984 issue, the magazine came under the control of Redwood Publishing, a company recently founded by Michael Potter (a former publisher at Haymarket Publishing), Christopher Ward (a former editor of the '' Daily Express'' and a non-executive director of Acorn) and Chris Curry (one of the founders of Acorn).UK Magazine publishers (Reader's Digest to Reed to Ziff-Davis) on Magforum.com
/ref> In 1989, the name changed to ''BBC Acorn User'', reflecting the fact that the commercial arm of the BBC, BBC Enterprises, took control of Redwood to expand its publishing activities. The magazine lost the BBC branding when it was sold to Europress, publisher of rival title '' Acorn Computing'', coinciding with its January 1994 issue. The magazine later incorporated ''Acorn Computing'' and ''Archimedes World'' magazines. Even when compatible hardware was released by RiscStation, Castle, MicroDigital, and Advantage 6 the magazine continued with the Acorn name whilst covering the extended range of hardware. In 2004 the magazine was acquired by Finnybank Ltd, which had previously purchased the

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Acorn Publisher magazine: the two magazines were replaced by ''Qercus'', edited by John Cartmell.

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External links

Acorn User archive websiteAcorn Electron World website (featuring archive of cover scans)
(featuring covers and full magazine scans) * Archived Acorn User magazines on the Internet Archive 1982 establishments in the United Kingdom 2005 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom Home computer magazines Magazines established in 1982 Magazines disestablished in 2005 Magazines published in London {{UK-compu-mag-stub

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