Date   : Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:38:15 +0000
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Reuters Board

It's not here yet but I think it's just the board, no other panels or
backplanes.  I'll report back when it turns up.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Jules Richardson
To:   bbc-micro@...
Sent: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:11:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Acorn Reuters Board

Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> Does anyone know what to do with an Acorn Reuters Board?

Give it to meeeeee ;)

Seriously though, nice find - I've only ever seen pictures of one before.

 From memory, these boards should come with a connector panel that lives in 
the same rack as the main board, connected by a Eurocard backplane. That has 
all the I/O ports on it and if you've got that then it's probably enough to 
get it to do something - plug it into a Eurocard backplane, give it some power...

Also from memory, they use modified firmware rather than any standard Acorn OS 
ROM - I don't actually know how much of a standard beeb the boards are though. 
*maybe* they'd boot a normal beeb OS ROM and give you a rackable beeb...

(I've going to be playing with the Cube Eurobeeb stuff in the next few weeks, 
so I'm going to be playing the same sort of compatibility fun and games!)

cheers

Jules