Date   : Tue, 16 May 2006 22:33:48 +0100
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: Spotting an upgraded model A

Rob wrote:
> At 10:18 16/05/2006, Kris Adcock wrote:
>> 5. The plastic keystrip just says "BBC Microcomputer" rather than specifying
>> a RAM size.
> 
> My original model B had a keystrip that said simply BBC Microcomputer 
> - later ones had "British Broadcasting Corporation / Microcomputer 
> System" on two lines.  Somewhere along the line I tink I have that 
> keystrip away on a machine.. :-(   It's only with the B+ machines 
> that they put the memory size on them (to differentiate them, as 
> otherwise they look the same!)

I have what I *believe* to be an upgraded Model A (it has no Analogue 
port fitted, and only the Printer and Disc drive ports are present 
beneath), and it has the full two-line "British Broadcasting..." text 
on the keyboard strip, beside the owl.

I bought another Model B on sunday (1 pound, boot sale - mucky, but a 
worker), and I'm now desperately curious as to what's printed on it's 
keyboard strip, but I can't see it at the moment (it's about 90 miles 
away.)