
Acorn Online Media Set Top Box

The Acorn Online Media Set Top Box was produced by the "Online Media" division of Acorn Computers Ltd for the Cambridge Cable and Online Media Video on Demand trial and launched early 1996. Part of this trial involved a home-shopping system in partnership with Parcelforce.
The hardware was trialled by NatWest bank, as exhibited at the 1995 "Acorn World" trade show.
Specification.
STB1.
The STB1 was a customised Risc PC based system, with a Wild Vision Movie Magic expansion card in a podule slot, and a network card based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
STB20.
The STB20 was a new PCB based around the ARM7500 System On Chip.
STB22.
By this time Online Media had been restructured back into Acorn Computers, so the STB22 is branded as 'Acorn'.