Date   : Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:50:13 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: bbc master

<michael@...> wrote:
> My company still uses about 40 BBC masters to control some specialist
> equipment.  We still run about 10 econet networks throughout the world for
> various clients including 2 in China, 1 in Taiwan and 1 in Japan!
 
Wow.  I used to work for Acorn in Hong Kong, we might have dealt with you.
 
Until very recently the Hong Kong harbour authority used a network of BBCs
to model and simulate water-flow conditions in the harbour and surrounding
waters, and a huge number of stock market trading terminals are BBCs with
customised internal broadcast teletext interfaces.
 
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