Date   : Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:50:31 +0100
From   : c.j.thornley@...
Subject: Re: Xfer

Hi,
Is it possible to fit a dual switcher arangement to a BBC + like those soldisk
untils you could get a long while back which allowed you to hot switch the
controller. i seem to remebr that soldisk was aquired by IBM.

Chris
> 
> From: Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
> Date: Tue 05/Mar/2002 07:27 CET
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Xfer
> 
> In article <10203042004.ZM26528@...>, Pete
> Turnbull <pete@...> writes
> 
> >Actually, a B+ can use either an 8271 or a 1770.  Mine has an 8271.
> 
> Unusual.  I know the PCB was designed so that either chip could be
> fitted during manufacture, but I didn't think Acorn ever fitted any
> 8271s to the B+; it was already obsolete at the time of the B+'s launch.
> 
> -- 
>      Security-wise, NT is a server with a 'Kick me' 
>      sign taped to it.         -- Peter Gutmann
> 
> 
> 


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