15 Jan
2003
15 Jan
'03
4:34 a.m.
At 08:02 15/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:
I saw one go on eBay for GBP 750 start of last year ... there are a few
kicking about.
ARM Evaluation
Kit - yep - that's the one. I do have various discs
and manuals for it, too. I used to love the "twin" editor - several
open files at one, and could cut and paste between them. Ahead of
it's time...
It's all boxed up somewhere under the stairs though.
You lucky devil - I've
been looking for a BBC Micro ARM Evaluation Kit for
years! I saw one at a show ("Last ARM Evaluation Kit In Existence") - that
just made me want one even more :-) [BBC Micro expense]
I have an original acorn terminator box that was converted to be a clock
(they had same PCB inside, populated differently) in a non-standard way -
this one seemed to use not much more than a 555. I'll try and dig it out
and trace the circuit, if it would help. Replacement terminators were not
much harder to make - three or four resistors in the back of a 5-pin DIN
was enough. I was never quite sure what the one acorn supplied needed a
PSU for ..! Cabling was simply daisy-chain the BBC's in parallel.
Rob
They were expensive, but much more expandable
than the spectrum. At
one point I had about six of them in my bedroom on an econet network,
had several on modems running a multi-user BBS.
I've been wanting to get some
Econet Interface boards for my A3000, A3010
and Master 128 and get them going on a small Econet network. The fact that I
need a "clock box" has slightly dissuaded me...