Editing Acorn Computers (section)

====NewsPad====
[[File:RIscUser-magazine-covers-for-RiscPC-and-NewsPad-reveals.png|thumb|right|Risc User: NewsPad – covered in the October 1996 issue]]
In 1994, the EU initiated the NewsPad<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/esprit/src/omi09252.htm|title=European Commission : CORDIS : Help : : Archives|website=cordis.europa.eu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516224341/http://cordis.europa.eu/esprit/src/omi09252.htm|archive-date=16 May 2013|access-date=16 August 2012}}</ref> programme, with the aim of developing a common mechanism to author and deliver news electronically to consumer devices. The programme's name and format were inspired by the devices described and depicted in Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Acorn won a contract to develop a consumer device / receiver, and duly supplied a RISC OS-based touch-screen [[tablet computer]] for the pilot.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/NC.html#NewsPAD|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613044705/http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/NC.html#NewsPAD|url-status=live|title=Acorn NCs, STBs & Prototypes: NewsPAD |last=Whytehead |first=Chris |website=Chris's Acorns |publisher=The Centre for Computing History |archive-date=13 June 2021}}</ref><ref>http://adrenaline.ucsd.edu/onr/annotation%20devices.html#newspad{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} Annotation devices</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bIwnzZvP2lEC&q=Acorn+NewsPad&pg=PA559|title=Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities|first1=James-Yves|last1=Roger|first2=Jean-Yves|last2=Roger|first3=Brian|last3=Stanford-Smith|first4=Paul T.|last4=Kidd|date=12 May 1998|publisher=IOS Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9789051994506}}</ref> The device measured {{convert|8.5|xx|11|in|mm}} and was being tried in 1996 in Spain by [[Ediciones Primera Plana]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Pelline|first=Jeff|title="Daily me" device on horizon|url=http://news.cnet.com/Daily-me-device-on-horizon/2100-1023_3-244301.html|access-date=17 August 2012|newspaper=[[CNET]]|date=5 November 1996|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102021851/http://news.cnet.com/Daily-me-device-on-horizon/2100-1023_3-244301.html|archive-date=2 November 2012}}</ref> The Barcelona-based pilot ended in 1997, but the tablet format and ARM architecture may have influenced Intel's 1999 WebPad / Web Tablet program.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/05/25/intels_newspad_from_acorn/|title=Intel's NewsPad from Acorn... the saga continues...|website=The Register|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810091418/https://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/05/25/intels_newspad_from_acorn/|archive-date=10 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shinsel.com/webtablet/default.aspx|title=Home - Intel Web Tablet|date=15 December 2013|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215172819/http://www.shinsel.com/webtablet/default.aspx|archive-date=15 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cordis.europa.eu/esprit/src/results/res_area/omi/omi7.htm|title=European Commission : CORDIS : Help : : Archives|website=cordis.europa.eu|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222211542/http://cordis.europa.eu/esprit/src/results/res_area/omi/omi7.htm|archive-date=22 February 2008|access-date=20 August 2012}}</ref>