Date   : Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:25:32 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: 6502s and SASI/SCSI.

>Message-ID: <4415F9C1.1030107@...>
 
Fragula <fragula@...> wrote:
> running back and forth the screen between sketches waving a coiled up
> wire with a D25 on one end and domino DIN on the other yelling something
> each time about it being an "RS232C Connector". Ian and I looked
 
> Does anybody else remember that sketch? Did I dream it???
 
Wow!!!!  Remember that!
 
R S two three twoooo
R S two three twoooo...
 
> > was so huge that the beeb sat on top of it!
> Must be around the same size as mine.. Big brown diecast sides, sheet
> metal top and bottom, weight about 30 kilos. Large black and chrome
> "GPO" badge, and "property of H.M. Government" on the back? Brown line
> cable with spade connectors?
 
At University sombody offered me a modem. I said well, I've no
phone line, but ok. What they gave me was the size of a small room
heater, and weighed about the same as a microwave oven.
 
I left it behind in my Halls room when I left.
 
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