6 Nov
2006
6 Nov
'06
5:59 a.m.
Adrian Graham wrote:
Aha - worth a look, then. I suspect we've got the same issue at Bletchley, but
that doesn't help me much right now :-)
On 2/11/06 08:41, "Jules Richardson"
<julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hmm, it used to be in the same room as the A86 - but it may depend on when you
took the pictures as Ben and I had a good sort-out in that room. "PC clones"
tended to end up in the room up the top of D Block (the one with the Xerox kit
and micro trainers in it)
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?
Hmm, personally I'd say no - we've got a couple of nice Alphas already; if it
was anything other than DEC I'd still be tempted if it was one we didn't have
- but space is limited and we're swamped with DEC items as it is; I'd rather
save the room for something from a different manufacturer. You may want to
prod the BP mailing list about it though just to be sure.
cheers
J.