Editing Iyonix PC (section)

{{short description|Acorn-clone personal computer}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2017}}
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{{Infobox information appliance
| name = Iyonix PC
| logo = [[File:Castle iyonix pc logo.png|176px]]
| image = [[File:Iyonix (front).jpg|160px]]
| caption = Iyonix front, showing drives (CD-RW, floppy disk), power button, reset button, LEDs, USB ports
| developer = [[Castle Technology]]
| manufacturer = Castle Technology
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| releasedate = {{Start date|df=yes|2002|10|22}}<ref name='c.s.a.announce 2002-10-22'>{{Cite newsgroup
  | title = Iyonix at RISC OS South-East
  | author = Mr J Sawyer
  | date = 22 October 2002
  | newsgroup = comp.sys.acorn.announce
  |message-id= ap.669a7c4b89.a701a0a.m.conroy@argonet.co.uk
  | url = https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.acorn.announce/browse_thread/thread/d9bc58c3a63fa029
  | access-date = 10 March 2011}}</ref>
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| discontinued = {{Start date|df=yes|2008|09|30}}<ref name="osnews range taken off market ">{{cite web | url=http://www.osnews.com/story/20340/Iyonix_Range_Taken_Off_the_Market | title=Iyonix Range Taken Off the Market | publisher=[[OSNews]] | date=2008-09-29 | access-date=18 August 2011 | author=Holwerda, Thom | quote=A huge blow to the already small RISC OS market and community: Castle Technology has announced that the Iyonix range of ARM-based RISC OS computers will be taken off the market after 30th September.}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.drobe.co.uk/extra/PR07-IYONIXproductiontocease.txt |title=IYONIX Ltd |access-date=2011-03-10 |date=2008-09-25 |via=Drobe |quote=IOYONIX Ltd would like to announce that from the 30th September 2008 it will not be possible to order an IYONIX computer. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209115940/http://www.drobe.co.uk/extra/PR07-IYONIXproductiontocease.txt |archive-date=9 December 2008}}</ref><ref name='c.s.a.announce 2008-09-30'>{{Cite newsgroup
  | title = IYONIX Press Release
  | author = John Ballance
  | date = 30 September 2008
  | newsgroup = comp.sys.acorn.announce
  |message-id= slrnge59v4.76r.ngb@compsoc.dur.ac.uk
  | url = https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.acorn.announce/browse_thread/thread/81c090cf7044c893
  | access-date = 10 March 2011}}</ref>
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| media = [[CD-RW]], [[floppy disk]]
| os = [[RISC OS]], [[Linux]]
| power = 
| cpu = [[ARM core|ARMv5]] [[XScale]]
| storage = 
| memory = 
| display = 
| graphics = Nvidia video card
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| predecessor = [[Risc PC]], [[A9home]]
| successor = [[Touch Book]], [[ARMini]]
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| website = {{url|iyonix.com}}
}}

The '''Iyonix PC''' was an [[Acorn Computers|Acorn]]-clone [[personal computer]] sold by [[Castle Technology]] and [[Iyonix Ltd]] between 2002 and 2008. According to news site ''[[Slashdot]]'', it was the first personal computer to use Intel's [[XScale]] processor.<ref name="slashdot">{{cite web | url=http://slashdot.org/story/02/12/07/209230/first-desktop-computer-to-use-intels-xscale | title=First Desktop Computer To Use Intel's XScale | work=[[Slashdot]] | date=7 December 2002 | access-date=9 January 2012 | author=Chamberlain, Ian | quote="Drobe, the leading RISC OS portal, has reported the release of Iyonix, the first desktop computer to use Intel's XScale processor.}}</ref> It ran {{nowraplinks|[[RISC OS|RISC OS 5]]}}.<ref>{{cite web |last=Proven |first=Liam |date=2006-10-20 |publisher=[[The Inquirer]] |url=http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1039769/risc-os-appears-couple-late |access-date=2011-06-28 |title=RISC OS six appears, only a couple of years late |archive-date=6 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091106005205/http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1039769/risc-os-appears-couple-late |url-status=dead |quote=RO5 [...] appeared at the end of 2002. [...] put together a new, 32-bit ARM machine, the Iyonix.}}</ref>