archimedes

A photo of a package for Acorn Archimedes refers to a 'developer edition'.

AS I was in the UK, this was wiped out by the Acorn Archimedes coming on the scene.

Often called simply The Method, it takes the form of a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, the chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria.

Back in the day I remember going through Computer Shopper (UK version) and learning about the Archimedes in alternative computing section.

Firstly nothing was finished initially when the Archimedes came out.

Can the homeland of Archimedes return to buoyancy?

Since other people are reminiscing about ARM: - It was the first language I wrote real programs in, back in the late 80's on the Acorn Archimedes desktop machines it was originally built for.

Incidentally, the mechanical method itself might have been lost to history had it not been for the discovery of the Archimedes Palimpsest in a medieval prayer book [1], which contains the only known copy of the work describing it.

Going from a BBC Master to an Acorn Archimedes 310 at the College I was working in then was like going from an Apple ][ to a Mac.

In the mechanical method, Archimedes imagined, for example, a section of a parabola balancing with a triangle, using the law of the lever (which he also discovered) to derive the area necessary to achieve said balance.

My school had all the kit: BBC econet network, an early archimedes deployment, CNC mills and lathes, properly kitted out electronics and science labs, the lot.

My favorite example of mathematics that blends intuition and rigor comes from the works of Archimedes of Syracuse: the mechanical method used to intuit results such as the area of a parabola, followed by the method of exhaustion used to prove the result rigorously.

But, Archimedes also believed in testing his ideas when possible so "modern science" is probably not the best term.

It was the final puzzle in the educational adventure/puzzle game "Crystal Rain Forest"[1] for the Acorn Archimedes.

Archimedes' "Sand Reckoner" is pretty readable, too.

I really like the bits of historical interest that comes out in the interview, naval battles and Archimedes- you get the sense that he just loves learning, even if it's not "useful" knowledge.

If you want to stay down, you have to actively move in order to counter Archimedes' force.

Archimedes 310s(?) were in use for medical graphics applications (expanded RAM and I think I recall they had floating point units of some kind).

Archimedes computers could host transputers.