Date   : Thu, 05 Aug 1999 02:02:03 +0100
From   : "B.E.Newsam" <ben@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn

In message <199908041526.QAA19418@...>, Rick Galbraith
<rick_galbraith@...> writes
>I bought my BBC, secondhand but never used, in 1990, from a library in 
>Keewatin (next to Kenora), another Northwestern Ontario community
>an hour and a half closer to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

As a matter of interest, which OS does it use in Canada? How many pixels
in each screen mode? There was a special version of the OS (and a
slghtly different machine) for use in the USA. They spent, ISTR, 11
millon pounds on marketing in the US, and sold a grand total of 50
machines.

The different OS was required because of the 60 Hz scan speed of US TVs.
The modified machine was required to satisfy radiation requirements,
there was a metal shield inside the case.
-- 
Ben