12 Jan
2003
12 Jan
'03
1:58 p.m.
At 12:58 AM 1/12/03 +0000, Rob wrote:
FWIW, View is a word processor.
Acorn OS
Acorn DFS
BASIC
is exactly correct - you are in basic now.
If you can get keyboard
working,
Got it working about three hours ago. Since then I've been reading the docs
(online) and trying out everything. It's very different from most US computers and the
keyboard layout is STRANGE!
you can key *HELP for a list of installed ROMs, and other
accessible system commands.
Cool! Thanks for the tip. I tried it and got:
DFS 1.00
DFS
Utils
NFS 3.40
View A2.1
Stored
Cmode
OS A1.0
I recently sold an American beeb that had been converted back to British
specs. Interesting piece. I've also got a German one (also with a dodgy
PSU) that is pretty much the same. The "normal" British ones didn't have
any of the heavy metal screening around the case.
Any idea how many were exported to the US or how many were re-imported to the UK?
Oh, newbie list member here (thanks to the slashdot article).
Oh, well welcome to the list. What kind of stuff are you interested in?
The PDP talk makes me want to kick my boss - he chucked two PDP11/23 clones
(but original boards inside) on the tip last year, as well as sone S100
machine. I knew they'd have been worth something, but he's something of a
chuck-out maniac.
We all have stories like that to tell :-/
Joe