Date   : Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:42:31 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Which model do you use?

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 23:55 +0100, Richard Kilpatrick wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2004, at 22:46, Jules Richardson wrote:
> >
> > Ditto - nothing's quite as balanced as the original B in terms of
> > hackability versus warm and fuzzy product!
> >
> > Plus you can stack no end of stuff on them, they're indestructable
> > etc. :-)
> >
> > Hmm, I just counted up Acorn machines in the collection in my head and
> > got to 45. That's somewhat disturbing! :-/ (suprisingly, nearly all of
> > them actually work, too :-)
> 
> Is that including the A540? :)

Nope - still haven't picked that up from Witchy!

>  and NeXTCube (off ebay, fingers crossed the seller is 
> alright) 

Make sure you take lots of pics if you get that! I've never seen a real
cube, and images and info on the 'net seem very thin on the ground. I'm
still keeping an eye out for one (or just a slab) for the museum, but
there aren't any complete ones about. 

Some chap mentioned he had 5 slabs in bits a while ago, then it all went
quiet - I'll give him a prod and see if he still has them though... 

> - mostly Apples now since all my good Acorns have been 
> distributed all over the place! My preferred Acorns were/are the A410 
> with ARM3 that I use for writing floppies, my BBC B+ 128K (now gone), 
> and the Master - I'm reassembling one to play with the Music 5000 right 
> now. I think the PSU makes it noisy - the machine I gutted for spares 
> was noisy, and I'm using it's PSU.

There's no guarantee that 5000 works of course - I never had the kit
here to test it all out!

seeya

J.