13 Jan
2003
13 Jan
'03
4:56 a.m.
At 23:00 12/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:
No idea, I'm afraid, though this page may help:
http://8bs.com/see/iss1ad.jpg
See http://8bs.com/ for front page - excellent web site for all things BBC.
BBC mostly, though not in a "must have everything" sense. Just because I
spent many years making a sort of living off them. I've got one of Acorn's
original ARM development systems though (connects to the BBC) which I've
had since they were hot off the press.
I do have a microfive 1000 (if I brave an antagonistic ex-wife to collect
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!
lol - it was hard getting used to a PC keyboard after using a BBC for
years; and I did like the arrows+copy concept of being able to cut+paste
text from anywhere on the screen.
you can key *HELP for a list of installed ROMs, and
other
ok; you can key *HELP .... (any of the headers or indented options) for a
list of commands and their syntax - these are handled by the support ROMS -
the BBC had (generally) 32K of RAM, 16K of operating system (the OS rom)
and up to 16 pageable 16K application / language ROMs (basic machine had
space for four). Each ROM could service *.. commands - many are languages,
or applicatations posing as languages (eg View word processor) or are
toolkit or support ROMs. There are hundreds if not thousands
available. Newer machines and add-on boards provided RAM in this location,
into which ROM images could be loaded off disc instead.
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 from the attic) - multi-user 8088 based machine. I was
trying to write a
MUG on it at one point.. Anybody got any interest?
Regards
Rob