Acorn Electron Laptop

This was an intresting project. I built the case & also the power supply that went in the display unit, it was big bulky but worked. The small tape player ended up not being sutible as it was not loud enougth.

The power suply used a 7812 for the LCD display that was a revercing monitor for a car. The tape player had a buck regulator to step the voltage down to 3V which is what the talpe plaer used. Also used that for the power LED. The second composite was fed though a hole so yiou could use it as an external monitor.

Link 4 on the Electron motherboard was bridged so it would output colour on the composite output.

The rear of the car reverceing monitor mounted in its "Stone Tablet" Total Biscuit.

Early test wireing of the display unit. Was useing a dead Electron for testing, later fixed it. The ULA had failed.

The Acorn Electron Laptop in early testing.

The Acorn Electron Laptop sitting on my desk at uni. It also doubled as an extra composite monitor for other computers I obtained.