| abstract | - The Acorn Computer Company was founded in 1982 by computer programmer Gerald Acorn. He had been working into the night programming his BBC Micro to repeat the word "boobs" on an infinite loop when he brushed the Break key, erasing weeks of work and almost three lines of BASIC. In anger, he threw the computer to the floor where it landed on his cat's tail. The cat flew into a rage, throwing Acorn to the floor and punching and kicking him unconscious. During his long recovery, Acorn worked on a revolutionary new computer. It was just like the BBC Micro of old, with a keyboard based on a baboon's arse, but the new computer had a Graphical User Interface, and no break key. It also pioneered the three button mouse, a device designed to confound Apple users. This computer went on to become known as the Acorn Archimedes, so called because of the large volume of water it displaced as Mr Acorn dropped it into his bath in an abortive suicide attempt.
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