Date   : Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:58:36 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Patching a CF card patched ADFS

On 02/01/2011 01:19, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> I do, however, still lament the passing of the RISC PC's expandable
> case. That was one 'design hit', even if the quad-slot backplanes were
> giant piles of unstable, sitting-on-the-edge-of-setup-and-hold-timing, crap.

I presume you mean the eight-slot quad-slice backplane? It might have 
been hairy, but - dammit - it was cool. If I had had the money back 
then, I would have got myself a Big RiscPC just because.

Actually... if I had any brains at all I should have picked up my RiscPC 
from CJE and asked for three dummy slices. No reason, nothing to put in 
them, just... you know... a machine that big... "Epic" sitting next to a 
generic PC in a tower case... you wanna tower? Check out the size of MINE.

<g,d&r>


To drag lamely back on topic, it is strange that the *size* of a BBC 
Micro was never any indication of its prowess. A Master is better, but 
then again perhaps not entirely... More, it depended on how much crap 
was plugged into it at any given time. A bog-standard Beeb with dual 
floppies, co-pro, printer, teletext (via user port), and some hidden ROM 
board to allow the code for all this to exist, that would be 
jaw-dropping. There'd be so many ribbon cables the machine itself would 
be floating an inch off the desk. [*]

Best wishes,

Rick.


* - of course a *Master* with all this stuff jacked into it, that's just
     pure fetish fuel. ;-)

-- 
Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...