Date   : Sat, 11 Dec 1999 21:26:49 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Brian Widdas <brian@...>
Subject: Re: bbc master

On 11 Dec 1999, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> > Message-ID: <000101bf3595$1e6b9730$0100a8c0@...>
>  
> <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.

I think I might have one of those. The Reuters custom board? 2 serial
ports, one printer, keyboard in, keyboard out (not sure what this was
for), plus various display inputs and outputs with some switching
circuitry so you can have several different displays put onto one or two
monitors. 64K memory. Some kind of Econet terminal chip as the 'language'
ROM instead of BASIC.

Brian
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