BBC Domesday project - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Dec 2002

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 From: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 3,  1:22, Sellam Ismail wrote:

 Seems like they finally figured out how to read that BBC Domesday disk:

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2534391.stm

 What I want to know is how they used "software emulation" to "read"
the
 disc.  There had to be some hardware involved somewhere.

 Anyone have the full story? 
I don't know what exactly they did, but I do know that several people who
have working laservision players offered to lend one.  It's just a Philips
laservision player, as still used by video buffs, but with a SCSI
interface.

Of course, you'd need software to make sense of the directory structure, so
perhaps the "emulation" part was something to run the Video Filing System
developed for the BBC Micro, or some equivalent.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York

Hi
 If they had the player, why not use an original BBC Micro to
read things?
Dwight