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IYONIX
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ISSUE 254
CHRISTMAS 2002
Liquid Silicon
Microdigital Computers
Omega Standard (small) Tower (145W PSU)
£1355.00
iiyama CRT Monitors
1352(15"FST)
1403 (17" FST)
Pro 1413 (17" NF)
£109.00
£143.50
£188.50
Pro 413 (17" NF)
£199.00
ega Midi Tower (240W PSU, 3x 3.5" & 4x 5.25" bays) £1399.00
ega Desktop (240W PSU, 3x 3.5" & 3x 5.25" bays)
£1402.00
ons when purchasing:
Optional 300W PSU upgrade for Midi/Desktop cases
30Gb drive instead of 20Gb
45Gb drive Instead of 20Gb
1451 (19" FST)
£210.30
Pro 452 (19" NF)
£275.20
Pro 454 (19" HBNF) £316.00
505 (21" FST)
Pro 512 (22" NF)
Pro 513 (22" NF)
£525.50
£675.00
£457.50
£44.65
£25.85
£62.27
60Gb drive instead of 20Gb
128Mb Instead of 64Mb
£105.75
£16.45
iiyama LCD Monitors
3814 (15" LCD)
3817* (15" LCD)
3819* (15" LCD)
3835* (15" LCD)
4314* (17" LCD)
4315* (17" LCD)
4332* (17" LCD)
256Mb Instead of 64Mb
512Mb Instead of 64Mb
CD rewrlter & software
£30.55
£81.07
£145.70
met card (10/1 OOBaseT)
Floating Point coprocessor
SCS11/2 controller card
SCS11/2/3 controller card
£52.85
£TBA
£80.99
£115.99
£306.50
£324.15
£431.60
£506.40
£511.90
£579.90
£710.40
Single board PC (needs processor (below)
and Windows) (for Midi & desktop cases only)
Fitted with 64Mb as standard - see memory
options above for larger replacements.
Cyrix M111 processor, 650MHz
Intel Celeron processor, 700MHz
Intel Celeron processor, 800MHz
Intel Celeron processor, 700MHz
Intel Pentium III processor, 1GHz
Cooling fan (below 1GHz)
Cooling fan (Above 1GHz)
Windows 98 OEM
£680.30
4611 (18" LCD)
4636 (18.1" LCD)
4637 (18.1" LCD)
4821* (19" LCD)
4831 (19" LCD)
£46.35
£53.40
£710.40
£903.50
£933.50
£960.60
£1300.60
£73.60
£86.00
£206.65
£7.05
£9.40
£93.99
5311 (20.8" LCD) £4088.50
5611 (22.2" LCD) £5856.50
* Also available in black.
lie coprocessor (1GHz)
£210.30
£598.00
£656.75
£480.50
£539.30
£797.50
£833.00
£180.00
RiscStation Computers
R7500 Lite
R7500 Llte+
R7500 NetWorx
R7500 NetWorx HD
R7500 Scorcher
R7500 Scorcher Twindeck
Osaris
LCD speaker options (ask
for more details):
OSP1-1
OSP1-1B black
OSP2-1
OSP2-1B
£57.60
£57.60
£78.00
£78.00
Screen protection sheets
(15", 17" or 18.1") £60.50
Touchscreens
15"
17"
19"
22"
15"
CRT
CRT
CRT
CRT
LCD
£660.00
Osaris Plus pack
Osaris Classroom pack
Portable
£210.00
£857.50
£1173.00
Portable with docking station
Games pack (with a system)
£1465.00
£47.00
POSurfl
£815.00
£942.00
£1195.00
£920.00
£1348.00
lyonix computers - STOP PRESS
Please ask about pricing and
availability on Castle's exciting new
32-bit XScale computers, featuring
RISC OS 5, fast DDR memory, PCI &
fast podule support, USB etc.
17" LCD
18.1" LCD
£1569.00
Projectors
LPX100LCD
DPS110DLP
DPX110DLP
£2525.90
£2048.60
£2864.60
Call us for your nearest UK
dealer for the POSum point of
sale systems and the EBMS
business management
solutions.
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Confused? Need more info? Just ask!
Authorised
nstaller
OTDK
Discs (e.g.20x black discs - £6.28)
Batteries (e.g. 4x AA Xtra alkaline - £2.24)
Also Audio & Video Tapes, Mini discs,
CDRs, DAT tapes etc.
32-bit MIDI Seque
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Liquid Silicon
Personal Accounts
Photodesk Olympic
Prophet 3+ Pro
Quake
R-Comp internet Suite
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IDI channels
track limit
uomo disc available
Now available -E129.00
Schema 2
SiteWriter
Sleuth 3
£44.00
£127.95
£179.00
£22.00
£68.95
£121.50
£58.95
Buying a new system shortly?
Orderyour RiscStation Portablenowand get a free
ethernet cable (straightor cross-over up to 10m) plus
free carriage.
Orderyour Omega/lyonix nowand choose from any
of the following games offers :
Abuse
£20.00
£65.95
TBA Games CD
£20.00
£209.95
£29.95
£24.50
chaos Engine
Descent 1 & 2
Heretic & Hexen
Quake
£15.00
£28.00
£25.00
£18.00
TechWriter Pro+
TEK
WebFX3D
Mel
Memory Upgrades
Please call to check current prices.
Books & Manuals
RISC OS Manuals CD
£29 95
No dePosits required. Games offer subject tostock
levels and may be discontinued at any time. Exact
prices and configurations will be agreed beforehand.
Rise PC/A7000/RiscStation/Mico SIMMs:
16MbFPM
£28.20
Second hand machines:
These machines have mainly come from schools and businesses. As such there are various
64Mb EDO (works in Rise PCs)
128Mb EDO
2Mb VRAM
£39.00
£77.55
brandings, labels, markings, scratches, very occassional broken bits (e.g. front flaps) on the
cases. All machines have been generally cleaned and air dusted inside to get rid of most of
Music & Sound Section
Please call for other musical items
MIDI interfaces:
£89.95 the dust, however the cases have not been meticulously cleaned as this would take a long
time and increase the prices considerably. Any machines which have PC cards are usually
486 cards, but as these are basically worthless, their value has not been taken into account
(and they might not have all the software on the disc to work them anyway).
MIDI Max II internal 1x1x1
£93.95 Getfree carriage ifyou also takea monitor (the'b' indicates an additional £10 carriage
£92.95 charge). Keyboard, mouse and mains cable included. Single slice machines do not have
£17.95 backplanes unless specified; two slice machines have four slot backplanes. Ethernet cards
£116.95 etc. can be taken out if not required. There is a three month warranty on these machines and
Parallel Port 1x1x1 (back in stock)
RiscStation MIDI drivers & cable
RiscStation XG card & cable
RiscStation XG card,cable&keyboard
Sibelius 6
Sibelius 7 Student
£245.95 theyare supplied 'as seen', so to speak.All detailsare subject to changeand pleasecheck
£99.95 availability before ordering. A7000(+) machines are also available - pleaseask for details.
£319.95
Sibelius7
Sibelius 2 for PC/Mac is also available
Sound
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module serial port
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driver
£520.95 RPC 610, RISC OS 3.5,16+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combiethernet card, PC card
rpc 610, RISC OS 3.5, 20+1 Mb, 203Mb+327Mb HDs, CD drive, 16-bitsoundcard
£37.95
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HCCS IDE card, Combi ethernet card &AccessNT, PC card, 2 slices
& AccessNT,
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£110.00b
£190.00b
10/100BaseT ethernet card (RCI/Simtec)
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Cordless keyboard &
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optical mouse
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Printers
Other
Hardware
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RPC 710»R'SC OS 3.5,36+1Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card
RPC 710, RISC OS 3.5,40+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card
RPC
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£120.00b
£120.00b
£120.00b
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£120.00b
£120.00b
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£14.99
£95.00
£120.00b
RPC 710, RISC OS 3.7,16+1Mb,203MbHD, 10BaseT ethernet card, CDdrive
RPC 710,
3.7,16+1 Mb, 203Mb HD,
CD drive
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Rise PC second slice (no PSU)
RISC OS 4 (fitting & Select available)
.......
£150.00b
RPC 710, RISC OS 3.7,16+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, CD drive, PC card £150.00b
£150.00b
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£109.95
Scanners
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10BaseT ethernet card, PC card
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RPC sA» R,sc os 3-7»16+1Mb> 203Mb HD, 10BaseT ethernet card
RPC SA, RISC OS 3.7,16+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, 10BaseT ethernet card
£280.00b
£280.00b
StrongARM & RISC OS 3.7 upgrade
Strong ARM & RISC OS 4 upgrade
ViewFinder card (32Mb)
Other Software
Abuse
P26Q 00 RPC SA'R,SC 0S 3-7'16+1 Mb'203Mb HD' Combi ethernetcard
PMQ on RPC SA*RISC os 3,7«16+1 Mb'203Mb HD> Combi ethernetcard, PCcard
rain nn RPC SA'R,sc os
37'24+1Mb'203Mb
HD>10BaseT ethernet card
RPC SA, RISC OS 3.7,16+1 Mb, 406Mb HD, Combi ethernet card
RPC SA, RISC OS 3.7,12+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, Cumana CD drive
£280.00b
£280.00b
£280.00b
£290.00b
£300.00b
C/C++(26/21-bit version)
CD Burn
Chaos Engine
DataPower 2
Doom+ CDs
Descent CDs
Desktop Repton 3 CD
EasiWrlter Pro+
FastSpool+
Grapevine
Heroes of Might & Magic 2
Krisalis Collection Gold CD
OHP2
Oregano CD
Other Worlds CD
Ovation Pro
£20.00
£99.00
£55.95
£19.50
£165.00
£30.00
£25.00
£15.95
£139.95
£17.50
£25.00
£32.00
£25.95
£37.95
£57.50
£17.95
£138.95
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7,16+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, CD drive, PC card £300.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7,16+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, CD drive, PC card £300.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7,16+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, CD drive
£300.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7, 20+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, CD drive
£300.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7,20+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, CD drive, PC card £300.00b
RPC SA, RISC OS 3.7,20+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, Cumana CD drive £300.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7, 20+1Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, CD drive, PC card £300.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7,24+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, Combi ethernet card, CD drive, PC card £300.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7, 64+1 Mb, 203Mb HD, 10BaseT ethernet card, CD drive
£310.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7,12+1 Mb, 2014Mb HD,Cumana CD,1OBaseT ethernet, PC card £320.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7,16Mb, 406Mb HD, Ultimate card & CD drive, Combi ethernet card,
XOB Teletext card, backplane
£350.00b
RpC SA, RISC OS 3.7,48+2Mb, 1032Mb HD, CD drive, Combi ethernet card, Cumana SCSI II
card with noisy 2Gb SCSI HD, two slices
£410.00b
Two slot backplanes
£10.00
Second hand monitors:
AKF6014"
£20.00b
PC SVGA 14"
£20.00b
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Printer drivers for the latest
Canon & HP Printers £25
Refurbished
Support for ARM2 to XScale, Many C99 features,
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Licence to distribute libraries.
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£99 inc
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Iiyama Pro 21"
£2t3u
£2501
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NEC 6FGp 21" £200t +£20p&p
3 month warranty
Offers from (Pu
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Hi Spec Lasers
Lexmark: tray fed, 12ppm
21"Hitachi CM82&$&^
£5ffl
£460t
+£20p&P
0.21mm 2048xl536@71Hz
3 year warranty
£260f + £10p&p
Network ver. £300+£iop&p
ViewFinder Pro 32MB
Special offer
£210
15" LCD Monitors 1024x768
Now from
£280
£260
£130
£150
Agfa SCSI Snapscan 600x1200dpi Ex Demo
S/H RiscStaion Lite 64MB + 4GB HD
20GB IDE Hard Disc
£1151
Psion 5MX (Ericsson MC218)
£2701
IDE CDRW 12836
£85
IDE BURN Proof CDRW 321040
S/H 2nd Slice upgrades inc. 4slot B/Plane
Access* 10base2 & T RPC/A7000 NIC
Canon S750 inc. Driver
HP960 inc. Driver
£70t
HP 5L 600dpi laser 1MB (refurbished)
£65f
Pocket Reader OCR pen
£230
£190
£120t
£70t
lmpact-3
32bit version under test!
S/H Eagle M2 Video & sound Digitiser
FPM RAM 64MB £50 128MB £90
£160t
EDO RAM 32MB £30 64MB £45 128MB £85
The
relational database for RISC OS
£90t
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Christmas 2002 Issue 254
Editor's Comment
CONTENTS
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The saying goes that "if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to
your door". I don't know who is supposed to have said it but there are three options
here: (a) this person was not a businessman; (b) the person actually said more than
this; (c) or, it's a misquote.
No professional business person believes that for a second, the falsity of it is so
obvious. Unless you tell people, no one is going to know. Maybe, just maybe, the
product is so good that, once a few people know, they will spread the wordvery fast
for you but that is very rare.
Itis very easy to tell people about what you are doing. You issue press releases to
the Press, you publish public announcements on the 'Net.Very simply, you let people
know. In these days of electronic communication it is very easy to keep people
appraised of what you are doing and what is available. Then there is Public Relations
(PR), and sending out press releases is part of it but there is so much more.
And that applies to us as much as anyone else and accuracy would be part of our
professionalism. Which went rather awry in the last issue, in the USB article I did say
that the Castle USB card wasn't available and that the software wasn't stabilised.
Castle got in contact with me to say that that wasn't actually the case, that the card
is available and the software is stable. Which really made a nonsense of the whole
article. Sorry about that.
More importantly, we delayed this issue slightly because we expected something
interesting to happen at the Midlands Show. Well, on the down side, the weather was
really bad and the attendance was not what had been hoped.
Howeveron th plus side, and it really is a major plus, the lyonix PC from Castle
was available to buy.And, in terms of professionalism, that was one of the smoothest
operations we've seen in the RISC OS market for a long time. We, at Acorn User,
had expected it but after so many disappointments in the past even we felt a little
concerned. But it was there, about 50 machines, and the Acorn User stand was in
Next issue on sale: 2nd January 03
just the right position to see the buying public actually buying them and walking away
with the boxes.
Published by
tau
PRESS
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Castle Technology have delivered what they promised and that is the most
important news of all. In my office right now I have an lyonix PC and the team will be
pulling it pieces, literally as well as metaphorically and together we will give you a
thorough review. The future of RISC OS has arrived and you can buy it right now.
Rob Donaldson
28a Middle Hillgate
Stockport SK1 3AY UK
enquiries@acornuser.com
www.acornuser.com
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