5 Nov
2006
5 Nov
'06
6:36 p.m.
On 2/11/06 08:41, "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
heh heh :) I thought it funny that you mentioned
Ferranti too. But no, this
was a much larger machine in a white metal case - it's not one I've ever seen
mentioned in any text about Ferranti before.
I've nosed through my D Block pictures and can't see anything of this one
but a couple of the Advance86. Which room is it in?
I'd wondered if the white machine was some weird
forerunner, but if the text
on www.old-computers.com is right then the Advance 86 developed out of a much
smaller home machine and retained the original board alongside a newer
Somewhere I've got a writeup on the A86 from its launch but I'm guessing
it's in Personal Computer News which means I'm 250 miles away from it right
now. That'll have internals pix and hopefully a bit of history probably
written by The Register's own John Lettice.
Rah. Oh, I've saved you a twin-cpu Alpha 2000 4/233 if you're interested, if
you ain't does anyone else want it?
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Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
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