Acorn Online Media Set Top Box

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The Acorn Online Media Set Top Box was produced by the Online Media division of

Video on Demand trial and launched early 1996. Part of this trial involved a home-shopping system in partnership with Parcelforce.[1]

The hardware was trialled by NatWest bank, as exhibited at the 1995 Acorn World trade show.[2]

Specification

STB1

The STB1 was a customised Risc PC based system, with a Wild Vision Movie Magic expansion card in a podule slot, and a network card based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode.[3]

  • Memory: 4
    MiB
    RAM
  • Processor: ARM 610 processor at 33 MHz; approx 28.7 MIPS
  • Operating system: RISC OS 3.50 held in 4 MiB ROM

STB20

The STB20 was a new PCB based around the ARM7500

System On Chip
.

STB22

By this time Online Media had been restructured back into Acorn Computers, so the STB22 is branded as 'Acorn'.[5][6]

  • Memory:
  • Processor:
  • Operating system: a development of RISC OS held in 4 MiB ROM

References

  1. CWU. Archived from the original
    on 25 April 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Acorn World show". Acorn User. September 1995. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  3. ^ Chris, Whytehead. "Chris's Acorns: Online Media STB1".
  4. ARM System–on–Chip Architecture
    )
  5. ^ "Acorn launches new set-top box". telecompaper. 19 March 1997. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  6. ^ Chris, Whytehead. "Chris's Acorns: Acorn NCs, STBs & Prototypes".

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