''Acorn User'' magazine was founded by Acorn Computers in 1982, contract-published by Addison-Wesley, to coincide with the launch of the BBC Micro. It covered the range of Acorn home computers, the BBC Micro and Atom at first and later the Electron,

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and Risc PC.

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The first issue was dated July/August 1982. From the April 1984 issue, the magazine came under the control of Redwood Publishing, a company recently founded by Michael Potter (a former publisher at

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), Christopher Ward (a former editor of the ''

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'' and a non-executive director of Acorn) and

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/ref> In 1989, the name changed to ''BBC Acorn User'', reflecting the fact that the commercial arm of the BBC, BBC Enterprises, took control of Redwood to expand its publishing activities. The magazine lost the BBC branding when it was sold to Europress, publisher of rival title ''

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'', coinciding with its January 1994 issue. The magazine later incorporated ''Acorn Computing'' and ''Archimedes World'' magazines. Even when compatible hardware was released by RiscStation, Castle, MicroDigital, and Advantage 6 the magazine continued with the Acorn name whilst covering the extended range of hardware. In 2004 the magazine was acquired by Finnybank Ltd, which had previously purchased the RISC OS Acorn Publisher magazine: the two magazines were replaced by ''Qercus'', edited by John Cartmell.

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External links

Acorn User archive websiteAcorn Electron World website (featuring archive of cover scans)
(featuring covers and full magazine scans) * Archived Acorn User magazines on the Internet Archive 1982 establishments in the United Kingdom 2005 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom Home computer magazines Magazines established in 1982 Magazines disestablished in 2005 Magazines published in London {{UK-compu-mag-stub

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