Date   : Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:13:12 +0100
From   : joel@... (J Rowbottom)
Subject: Domesday System

 Hi everyone --

 I am currently in the middle of a shedload of personal changes in my 
 life, and as such I'm going to be ridding myself of a substantial amount 
 of Beeb gear* in the fairly near future. I'll ask for expressions of 
 interest closer to the time (so please don't bombard me with 'do you 
 have' type requests), but...

 I am selling my Domesday system.

 This comprises:
 - LV player
 - LV player remote
 - BBC Master AIV
 - Discs for Community, National, and a set of boxed Countryside discs
 - Box for the discs, manual, and a few other bits and bobs of 
 cards/guides
 - Monitor (not original Domesday one, but same model)
 - Trackball
 - Documentation from the original submission kit sent to schools
 - Service manual as a PDF

 This works, WITH THE FOLLOWING CAVEATS:

 a) The sound from the LV player is extremely quiet, so much as it's 
 nonexistent. This MAY be an easy fix if you want to have a go. 
 Picture/genlock etc. is fine.

 b) Occasionally (especially when out of use for a long time) the 
 perpendicular focusing mechanism temporarily fails. However, it's quite 
 easy to un-stick it and get it going again (I've done so while at shows 
 with nothing more complicated than my little finger). Again, permanent 
 fix may be easy but it's a minor inconvenience so I haven't bothered 
 pulling it to bits.

 It's the setup I've been touring at shows for a few years. It doesn't 
 seem to overheat - I've run it for 6-8 hours at a stretch on 
 demonstration and it's been fine.

 I do not really want to have to muck around with eBay, and I do not 
 want to donate it for free/gratis to a museum as it cost me money in the 
 first place to obtain it and get it going. I will not split the bits, it 
 goes as a complete setup.

 If any organisation or person would like to make me an initial 
 (SENSIBLE) offer commensurate with age and condition for the entire lot, 
 please contact me privately and offlist at joel@... Feel 
 free to forward this to other parties you feel may be interested. I am 
 looking to sort this out fairly soon as I am having a major clearout and 
 would like it to go to a good home!

 Cheers anyway and hope you're all well,

 jess
 x


 * Econet stuff ranks fairly highly, as do coprocessors.