Date   : Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:28:08 +0100
From   : "Robert Schmidt" <robert@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Master series

Roger Cubitt wrote:
> 
> Mr Schmidt,
> Following leads on the web, I found your address.
> Some years ago, I found a BBC Master for a local school. It has functioned
> perfectly up to now but just recently it no longer works. I lack ANY
> documentation on the system and would like to get some original operating
> manuals to help me. The problem is that the system should come up with a
> BASIC > command and it doesn't...I think one of the kids (4 to 6 year olds!)
> has kicked a system command with random key pressing. The guy I bought the
> machine from gave me some basic commands for the system (which I wrote on a
> scrap of paper and have subsequently lost!) and I have this vague memory of
> a CTRL+???? switch from one or other operating system.
> Can you point me in a direction to get some basic info to help?
> Roger Cubitt
> Luxembourg

I have sent a copy of this reply to the BBC micro mailing list.  There
are many people there more competent than me at identifying problems
like the one you seem to have.  Information on how to join the list can
be found at http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/netresource.shtml#mail.  

If you want to experiment a bit on your own, there's quite a collection
of documentation in http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/docs.html (largely thanks
to Mark Usher's BBC documentation project) - including a BBC user's
guide and various more focused documents.  I don't think anything there
will get you far, though.

--
Robert Schmidt <robert@...           > Software Engineer
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