Yes, because Wikipedia is always more reliable than a mere WHOIS, especially from people who have laterly appear to have taken to believing that "ACORN" is some sort of acronym.

Going by the name, I reckon that Maxouille is French and may possibly have some first hand info.

There is a reference to [Alastair Anderson] here: http://www.riscoscode.com/Pages/Item0117.html

Lovely Peaches has the same address and is listed as "Entertainment Industry"

Only 78 days until the launch of the "Acorn Board".

Are you anticipating the launch of the new #AcornComputers website & Forums as much as we are. Not much longer now.

Both categories "32-Bit Acorns" and "RISC OS" are filed under "Vintage Acorn".

32-bit is vintage. Deal with it.

Is this the Acorn board that has nothing to do with Acorn?

Maybe, but if you do a search for the CEO, he appears to have (had) something to do with ARM, albeit a vague reference. This is what I found:

Alastair Anderson
CEO Acorn, Cambridge, United Kingdom | Computer Hardware
Current: Director at Lovely Peaches Ltd, CEO at Acorn (Cambridge) Ltd, Operations Intern at ARM Education: The University of Hull

There is a reference to him here: http://www.riscoscode.com/Pages/Item0117.html

Lovely Peaches ltd seems quite new too. Interesting choice of name there, I think...

Miss Lewinsky was as Intern at the White House, doesn't mean she had anything to do with running the country!

The contact and registered address is a holding address for 12,000 companies, Lovely Peaches has the same address and is listed as "Entertainment Industry"....doesn't take a lot of imagination there. It was registered with Companies House last month.

Acorn (Cambridge) Ltd has absolutely nothing to do with Acorn Computers and was registered in Nov 2011. The whole thing sounds like a front for someone caching in on the Pi success.

You'll have to forgive me for being slightly suspicious!

There is a reference to [Alastair Anderson] here: http://www.riscoscode.com/Pages/Item0117.html

Yes, and the Electron mentioned there is very likely to be the one pictured here.

Lovely Peaches has the same address and is listed as "Entertainment Industry"

Sounds like a porno studio, if you ask me.

Only 78 days until the launch of the "Acorn Board".

The test page with the countdown has gone. The main page http://www.acorn.eu/ seems to become a web shop with no trace of RISC OS at all. Furthermore, the registrant of the domain is (again?) that french company, DATA ACCESS.

I guess this is the end of the story.

Yes, right now it's just an empty template, probably the default template of this web shop software.

I clicked around a bit and interestingly, the twitter link leads to Alastair Anderson's tweets and the (empty, what else? ) facebook page features the name "Acorn (Cambridge) Ltd.", Mr. Andersons company.

Maybe Acorn (Cambridge) is still on track and it's just an ill-chosen standard template.

UPDATE:
The standard shop catagories are now replaced by catagories like "Acorn board", "Acornsoft" etc.

[Edited by Raeddie at 20:54, 31/7/2012]

Content at last! Ok, I stretch the definition of content a bit here, as it is just 5 paragraphs of vaguely formulated marketing blah, announcing a "program of projects" under the name Phoebe.

Their forum is said to be gone live as well and is following new Acorn's tradition of being empty, even the usual "Welcome" post is missing. At least the forum delivers a little bit of information: Both categories "32-Bit Acorns" and "RISC OS" are filed under "Vintage Acorn".

That suggests, whatever "Phoebe" is, RISC OS might not be part of it.

Enough crystal ball gazing for now.

32-bit is vintage. Deal with it.

Two less known facts: 1) Apple iPad is so expensive because of it's historical value. This value is generated by the usage of ARM technology. 2) ARM is an acronym for Antique Risc Machines.

Like Apple and ARM, I have not problem with using vintage technology, so I can deal with it.

My point was that by putting RISC OS (which means 32-Bit in the forseeable future) in the vintage category, the new Acorn made it quite clear that RISC OS isn't part of their "Phoebe" thing.

hello peeps,

has anyone seen the new page at http://www.acorncomputers.com/ ?

its just one page, but i wonder if theres more to come in the future?

-justin

Well good news or bad, it's nothing to do with me. In fact having a quick look at the Whois information shows that it is the same people behind Acorn (2006-2009).

It will be interesting to see what they have in store.

In fact having a quick look at the Whois information shows that it is the same people behind Acorn (2006-2009).

Huh? Am I having a blonde moment? As far as my recollection goes, the 2006 company was set up by someone called Sultan, based in Nottingham. The whois information I'm looking at for acorncomputers.com doesn't mention that name anywhere.

The only name I can see is Julien Clairet, based in Paris - the guy you mentioned back in December as being the owner of the trademark. This seems consistent with the fact that the page and CSS appears to have been put together by someone with a bit of a French inclination.

Or was this Julien Clairet actually involved in the 2006 company? I don't remember seeing his name come up at the time.

It will be interesting to see what they have in store.

Yes, provided it's not another case of playing on the name to sell Windows laptops, or some such nonsense.

(Noting that the site links to the Wikipedia page about Acorn with the text 'Hall of Fame' and not to the Acorn Computers 2006 page - although that's linked to from the Acorn page. TBH, to make it absolutely clear the new site isn't another attempt at using the Acorn name for generic rubbish, maybe the page maintainer ought to consider putting a link to that page, perhaps as 'Hall of Shame')

One way to get some real information is to ask, of course. That's why I sent an email this morning to the address on the web page.

Only 78 days until the launch of the "Acorn Board".

The test page with the countdown has gone. The main page http://www.acorn.eu/ seems to become a web shop with no trace of RISC OS at all. Furthermore, the registrant of the domain is (again?) that french company, DATA ACCESS.

I guess this is the end of the story.

Not quite the website was just under development.