Date   : Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:13:38 -0500
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: FS: beeb Provisional User Guide

I've got a first-edition BBC micro User Guide here (marked on the cover as 
"Provisional Copy") in need of a home.

I believe these shipped with model A machines in 1981 only - by early 1982 the 
finished guide was ready (someone correct me if I'm wrong there). Maybe 
someone has a Model A and wants to furnish it with the right documentation?

It's a proper bound book (not the spiral binding of the later guides). The 
front cover's the familiar "BBC Microcomputer System" text and owl, the 
"Provisional Copy" marking, "User Guide", and a picture of a running BBC setup 
- I wish they'd kept that for the final guide, but presumably it cost more to 
print a photo than an 8-colour concoction.

Oh, don't necessarily expect to do Real Work from this; at 234 pages it's half 
the size of the eventual finished guide, so lots must not yet have been 
written, and half the entries in the index point to page 0! There are various 
fragments of schematics in the back few pages, but no explanation as to why 
they're there.

Happy to take photos if needs be. Condition's one of those things that's hard 
to convey as it means different things to different people, but I'd put the 
inside pages as 100% and the covers at 95%. (That's definitely streets ahead 
of any final user guide I've ever seen ;)

Open to offers - thought I'd ask here before I think about risking the horrors 
of EBay :-)

cheers

Jules

ps. The 'setup' diagram's curious; it seems to show RGB leads whereas my 
'final' manual just shows a phono lead - I wonder why they changed it? Did the 
model A ship without a TV modulator and so require a monitor or something?