7 Mar
2012
7 Mar
'12
3:23 p.m.
In my somewhat vague recollection, many people /did/
use the BBC as a
text-centric machine, because in Mode 7, with the Mullard teletext
chip generating the display, you got the most available free memory
True. Mode 7 only needed 1K of video RAM.
from its meagre 32KB. Certainly many of the ones I saw
in labs at
university had got things like the
READY
>
The oterh explanation is that if all the configuration swithces were
open, you got MODE 7 as the pwoer-on defualt. Sicne the DIP swithc (on
the keybaord PCB) was not fitted as standard, and few users soldered one
in, mackines nearly always powered up in Mode 7.
-tony