Date   : Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:34:05 +0000
From   : Andrew Benham <adsb@...>
Subject: Re: Connecting a BBC Micro to a PC

Jules Richardson wrote:

> Speed's the main problem - it's not blindingly fast at BBC serial port 
> speeds. It's a shame there isn't a project around to cable up the BBC's 
> 1MHz bus to a PC parallel port and transfer data that way!

Something like that would be *very* useful for backing up the 20MB hard
disk on my BBC to somewhere else.  Trying to do a "streaming sectors"
backup onto floppies is a right pain.

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Andrew Benham           adsb@...       
Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom

The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill".