Date   : Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:15:23 +0000
From   : Andy Armstrong <andy@...>
Subject: Re: Order of Acorn Computers?

On 2 Dec 2005, at 10:53, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Think they were Marconi units anyway, and probably available off  
> the shelf somewhere.

They were, yes.

> There's still a fair number around, but almost none of them work.  
> Build quality on the players is about the worst I've ever seen in  
> anything.

At one stage we had five of which only one worked. And even then it  
had to be at the right temperature before it'd do its thing.

> Possibly stability reasons to improve genlock performance? There's  
> certainly a lot of image tearing whilst the genlock syncs the beeb  
> and LVROM video; maybe it minimises this?

I'm pretty sure that's right.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net