3 Oct
2005
3 Oct
'05
1:50 p.m.
Witchy wrote:
On Mon, October 3, 2005 5:05 pm, Jules Richardson
said:
I *think* so. The necessary software's in my loft back home (I assume
it's the equivalent of the VFS ROM on the Beeb). I haven't found out how
the trackerball connects yet, or if the Nimbus version even supported it
(might have been keyboard-only, although there was a BBC User Port board
available for the Nimbus)
Pete Chilvers *might* have a Nimbus with *a* SCSI controller; it's worth
giving him a shout. Whether it's the right board is another question.
Adrian Pearce (who did the National Archives Domesday data conversion
Oh, it's worth keeping an eye out for a Nimbus
Domesday system by the
way. They did exist, although I don't know of any survivors anywhere.
Other than that there's nothing really special about the Nimbus
hardware, it got boring after the 480Z days! (there's actually nothing
special about the Domesday Nimbus, except nobody seems to remember what
model of SCSI controller it needed)
Given that I've got 2 Nimbus machines (nimbii? :) is this something I
could build if we find out which SCSI controller was used? from the Beeb) is also trying to get a Nimbus version
up and running, so
picking his brains too would be worthwhile.
If you can wait until I'm back in the UK next month I can lay my mits on
the software, manual, and all the relevant emails I'd scraped together! :)
(by all accounts the Nimbus version of the software isn't a patch on the
BBC one by the way, so don't get too excited ;)