Date   : Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:50:45 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Sprow <rsprowso@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb stuff

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Chris Richardson wrote:

> As far as looking at websites (rather than using it for e-mails) goes. I
> have tried to make the 8BS website as simple as possible so that a beeb
> could view it and regularly have a look around it in 'text only' using Lynx.
> There are huge problems to get over, some of the pages are far larger than a
> BBC disc (let alone memory!) could hold for instance, so it would have to be
> viewed as it came in with no chance of scrolling up and down. Links would be

<blatent plug>
Sounds like an application for an 8 megabyte RAM disc
 http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/ramdisc.htm

> a problem, maybe presenting them as a list at the end of the text is one
> thing I thought, but the first thing is to actually connect the Beeb to the
> internet.......

True,
Sprow.