Date   : Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:15:47 +0000 (GMT)
From   : jim <jim@...>
Subject: Re: [Re: BBC Issue 1]

On 22 Jan 2001, Dave M wrote:

> Micropower/Software Bargains sold off a number of US Beebs in the early 1990s
> - £150+VAT - and each system included View, Speech ROM and 'Steel Reinforced
> Keyboard' (wow!) fitted as standard.
> 
> Quoting one of the ads:
> "These machines were originally manufactured for export to America. Having now
> shipped them back we have to make various modifications, which includes
> fitting a UK power supply and TV modulator"

Now this sounds familiar. In the computer room at school we had one beeb
which was noticeably different from the others. It had a big lump of metal
in it (damn, was it heavy!) and the Speech ROM. I was told that it was a
"US model", but it had a UK power supply and OS, and ran with a
full-height monitor (160/320/640x256 pixels, 40x25 characters text-only).
I'm sure it got there before 1990 though, we changed over to Macs in 1991
or 92 (over protests from the school geeks, we wanted Arcs).

jim
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