Date   : Fri, 22 May 1992 12:13:04 BST
From   : David Alan Gilbert <gilbertd@...>
Subject: My equipment

Hi Everyone,

Well I've got 3 8 bit beebs:-

1) Series 3 board , BBC micro before they
changed it to British Broadcasting Corp.,
which came with 0.1 in ROM and Basic 1,
but has since been upgraded and now has,
an ATPL board with 16K of non-battery backed
ram, a watford shadow ram board, a PMS
64K battery backed ram disc on the 1MHz bus,
and Acorn 8271 DNFS (1.20) with dual (full height) 100K
drives.

It is used mainly for developing software for a little
6502 controller board I built.  I built an eprom
emulator for around #20 which hangs off the user and parallel
ports.  At one time a long time ago it had
a 6502 second processor. Its 10 years old in September
and still works most of the time.

2) Model B series 7 board - also with Acorn 8271 DNFS,
and very little else on it.  The drives on it are
dual full height 100tpi drives bought second hand (when
I didnt know they were 100 tpi).  I really would be
interested to know what machines used 100tpi drives.
This was used in business for around 6 years running software
off tape and then off the ROM Filing System until it was
bought home about a year or two ago. This gets used
mainly as a terminal for packet radio (on that note
has anyone managed a really cut down TCP for the beeb?)

3) A master 128+512 board.  A more recent addition to the family,
the 512 board is useless and was bought when it was only #99.  It
has a pair of 800K drives on it.  This is mainly used for word
processing in View now - somewhere around we have an AMX mouse
and Pagemaker/Super Art.

I also have an Arc, but the beebs still get used regularly.

Dave
- David Alan Gilbert - gilbertd@... - G7FHJ@...                -