13 Jan
2003
13 Jan
'03
7:41 p.m.
Rob,
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.
Is that the "ARM evaluation unit" (or labelled as something similar)? I've
got
one of those *somewhere* but no docs / software for it. Think it had 4MB of
memory which was a reasonable amount in those days.
I've got a whole pile of other BBC and related stuff, but I've generally
forgotten what I have - your posting made me remember the ARM unit.
Funny how people don't remember the BBC systems that well - I suppose they were
generally quite expensive to have at home (compared to the Spectrums and C64
machines) and in a school environment people didn't get much of a chance to
really play about with them. They're certainly quite well designed machines...
cheers
Jules
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14 Jan
14 Jan
2:48 p.m.
At 09:44 14/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:
Rob,
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.
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.
Is that the "ARM evaluation unit" (or labelled as something similar)? I've
got
one of those *somewhere* but no docs / software for it. Think it had 4MB of
memory which was a reasonable amount in those days. I've got a whole pile of other BBC and related
stuff, but I've generally
forgotten what I have - your posting made me remember the ARM unit.
Funny how people don't remember the BBC systems that well - I suppose they
were
generally quite expensive to have at home (compared to the Spectrums and C64
machines) and in a school environment people didn't get much of a chance to
really play about with them. They're certainly quite well designed machines...
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. Ah, those were the days -
publishing your thoughts to the world took equipment and promotion.. these
days, anyone can bung up a web page.
That was about the time I was still single, working for Ferranti Computer
Systems (and I've never seen ANY of their computers lying about anywhere...
) and had plenty of money to indulge my hobby.
Rob
5:58 p.m.
Rob O'Donnell wrote:
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]
Is that the
"ARM evaluation unit" (or labelled as something
similar)? I've got one of those *somewhere* but no docs / software
for it. Think it had 4MB of memory which was a reasonable amount in
those days.
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. 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...
Later,
--
Phil.
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
15 Jan
15 Jan
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...
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