Acorn Xemplar Matrix NC - Network Computer
Xemplar was founded in 1996 as a 50/50 joint venture between Acorn and Apple to sell to the UK Education Market. In 1998 Acorn was looking to sell its 50% and seeking a buyer. In January 1999 Apple bought out Acorns 50% for £3 million. This ended Xemplar's involvement with Acorn and RISC OS based products.
Quite a rare Acorn / Apple machine.
Great Addition to any Acorn or Apple Collection
You are bidding on just the main unit.It has been tested by using a suitable 16v power supply (not supplied) and it comes up with the screen saying that it is unable to find the boot server. (It uses bootp). I have have plugged in a standard PS2 mouse and keyboard which both seem to work fine. Again these will not be supplied, just the main computer. This is as far as I am able to test. If you know of any further tests I can perform, please let me know.
This is the configuration screen that you can access by pressing Alt-Alt :
This screen shows the GUI that appears when the network card is removed from the Xemplar :
Rear connections :
