15 Jul
2005
15 Jul
'05
8:20 p.m.
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:46:44 +1000
"Aaron Brockbank" <aaron at ndwsfc.org.au> wrote:
Hello, all.
As a recent purchaser of the Ferguson Bigboard II, I find that it's
without any kind of documentation. Is there anything available
anywhere for this?
I have what I think is the complete documentation set for the Ferguson
BigBoard. I don't know if it's the Bigboard II. My board has
'Ferguson' etched right into the board. It's all in paper, schematics
and the manual, and if nobody else has it, I could generate a copy
and/or scan it in.
Does anybody else already have this material in electronic form?
From reading back issues of EA and ETI here in
Australia, this was
first
released here in November of 1983, by (the now defunct, I believe)
Ritronics (aka Rod Irving Electronics) of Melbourne. The board is
marked with "(c)1982 J. Ferguson" and makes no mention of Digital
Research Computers, or Cal-Tex.
I've read that the BB II was the basis for the Xerox 820, but the
schematics that I've been able to locate for the 820 are nothing like
what's on the BB II.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this.
Aaron (from the land downunder)