Date   : Wed, 17 May 2006 15:34:39 +0100
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Master 128 with VFS and SCSI

Joel Rowbottom wrote:
> Just noticed this has been bought-it-now on eBay - anyone on the list 
> get it?

Adrian of binarydinosaurs - so it's in good hands :)(well, assuming you mean 
item 8284785841)

I'll take a look at it when I'm back in the UK; I can probably borrow it and 
get some high-res shots too. I'm curious as to whether the genlock card's the 
same setup as that in the VP415 player, or whether it's a totally different 
board (supposedly the BBC themselves had several BBC machines with genlocks - 
I've never been able to find out for sure which boards they used)

*presumably* at one point there existed a Master like this one, a hacked VP405 
LVROM, and a box of tricks in the middle to do the control and interpret the 
SCSI bus - what eventually became the VP415.

> I've just taken delivery of an LVROM this morning *apparently* with the 
> SCSI mods, but I've not investigated it yet (had to dash to work).

Interesting. I thought all VP415 players had the necessary stuff for this - 
but there were a few VP405s hacked as development units to do the job; seeing 
some pictures of the latter would be great.

Or did VP415 boxes exist without the bottom slice containing the SCSI board 
and the genlock? Pictures of that - particularly detailed photos of the 
microcontroller  board pair would be great in order to compare differences to 
the 'real' units...

cheers

Jules