Date   : Fri, 22 May 1992 10:39:31 BST
From   : matthew@... (Matthew Sweet)
Subject: My equipment & interests

Hello everyone,

I have a BBC B (issue 3 PCB), with a sideways ROM extension
board with 16K RAM in the most important slot, but no
battery back-up.

I upgraded the machine to use DFS myself when 8271s
became available.  (At first it was faster to order
a machine without disk interface, as the 8271 chip was
on a longer lead time than anything else)

My trusty disk drive has just broken, and so I am considering
getting a pair of 3" slimline drives, and transferring
all of my files.  At the same time it might be an idea
to attempt to upgrade to ADFS and a 1770. I lost access
to my BBC when ADFS came out (I went to university and
my time was being occupied in other ways). How compatible
with DFS is it? Can I still play Elite from my Acornsoft
disk? If not can I transfer it easily?

I have a Z80 second processor that I have never used,
but will probably get around to playing with when I
have the disk support.

I would like a hard-disk at some time, and the SCSI
interface for 35 quid sounds like a real bargain - SCSI
is so versatile (and I can probably borrow a tape streamer
for backup purposes from work).

My interests include both H/W and S/W, but S/W tends
to win as it is cheaper to play with than H/W! I am
interested in a good "C" cross compiler/assembler/linker
for either the 6502 or the Z80 (or both). It could execute
on either, and would preferably come with the source.
Especially nice would be a linker that had the facility to
remove unreferenced functions from linked-in library modules,
thus reducing the size of the executable.

Yours,

Matthew

matthew_sweet@...