The Acorn Atom was the first home computer from Acorn Computers Ltd. Released in 1980, this 6502-based system featured 2K RAM and 8K ROM and cost £120 as a kit or £170 ready-assembled. It could be expanded up to 12K RAM for additional program storage along with a replacement 12K ROM that supported floating-point arithmetic.
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