Date   : Sat, 16 Oct 1999 08:39:29 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Master AV (FWD)

In article <1999101521550566447@...>, Mike Mallett
<mike.mallett@...> writes

>Recall this was part of a project to put all of the OS maps 
>(1:50000) on disc together with stacks of local info. Think
>it was called the Doomsday project

Domesday

>The Laserdiscs were 12" and used analogue video and digital sound, I 
>think the whole lot was on two or three discs. The player was a 
>modified Phillips machine which unlike consumer models had a serial 
>port so it could
>be driven by a computer.

Actually, it had a SCSI port and was driven by a simple-minded SCSI
interface in the Master, sitting in the space to the left of the
motherboard intended for the internal modem.

>The Master also had a fews mods which I can't recall.

None that I remember, apart from the SCSI card and AV ROM.

-- 
Mike Tomlinson