Date   : Fri, 08 Oct 1993 00:14:17 +1300
From   : David Andrew Sainty <David.Sainty@...>
Subject: Re: introduction

From: J Day <jeday@...>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 93 11:32:47 BST
Comments: BBC Mailing List

> Hello,
> 
> Just by way of introduction - I am a postgraduate student at the
> University of Edinburgh.  I use three BBC Master Systems to control
> experimental apparatus via the user port.  I am currently trying to
> build up a system which records events via an interface and writes
> datafiles to disc in real-time.  My ideal solution would be to obtain
> some Winchester Hard disc drives for the Masters so data collection
> would be a lot easier.  I would welcome any help on how to obtain such a
> device.  I have been told that it could be possible to network the
> machines and use an old BBC B as a fileserver to write to and from disc.
> 
> Could anyone help?

Can you be more specific on the sampling speed and volumes you're
looking at here?