Date   : Sun, 26 Oct 2003 11:44:46 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Numbers of BBC and Master Computers Manufactured

Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> >  o System 1
> >  o System 2
> >  o System 3
> >  o System 4
> >  o System 5
> 
> Without digging through all my docs, I believe the higher-numbered
> System units were just variations on the earlier machine, only with
> additional cards. In other words there probably isn't really a figure
> for the various models but only one number for the number of units as a
> whole.
 
As Net_MachinePeek returns one value for both System 3 and System 4, that
implies that they are varients of the same hardware. Net_MachinePeek
returns a different value for System 5, implying that it's sufficiently
different to the System 4 to be thought of as a different machine.
( See http://www.mdfs.net/Docs/ManPages/N/4NetMachin )
 
> >  o Reuters Board
> 
> I'll bite... what's one of those then?
 
I'll take a photo of one of mine and put it on my website.  It's basically
a BBC B+ on a customised motherboard with specialised additional hardware
for stock market trading. Until a few years ago, whenever there was a
picture on the TV news about the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, all those
teminals in serried rows were Reuters Terminals - BBCs in a pretty box!
 
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