21 Jun
2010
21 Jun
'10
11:47 p.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
Plus there's no backup ;)
cheers
Jules
The BP fleamarket seemed to be all BBC Model Bs,
Sinclair Spectrums and
ZX81s. Starting prices around the ?50 mark..... yeesh.
I raised that same viewpoint on the NMoC mailing list a few weeks ago; it's
just too much for something that can regularly be found [in the UK] for zero
cost with just a little effort.
As I understand
it, it was all extras from the TNMoC collection, not a bring-and-buy.
I believe so, yes. I'm not quite sure how "we know we'll never need this in
the future" was arrived at.
I'd have expected to see a 3" drive or two
They never had many when I was there on site, at least - the odd +3 speccy,
Tatung Einstein etc. with them built-in, of course, but there wasn't really a
spares stock and certainly no surplus.
I suspect the threat of The Wrath of The
Ambulance-Chaser has put paid
to most of these. The organisers are just too scared that someone will
buy (say) a BBC Master, plug it in and the PSU will go "pop" and dump a
ton of smoke into the room. The "hapless and unfortunate victim" then
proceeds to sue the event organisers because everything "should have
been safety-tested" and the device was "obviously unsafe"...
There was some mention of it, but buggered if I can find it in the archives
now :-(
'I wanted
to change the world, but they wouldn't give me the source code'
OK, I'm going to say two things about that:
1) LOL!