Date   : Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:21:33 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb in London Review of Books

I thought it was curious that the author claimed the Beeb could only count
up to 32767 as typing in 32768 gives a syntax error - I thought he would have
been able to distinguish between the maximum line number the BASIC interpreter
can
cope with and the biggest number the computer can generate, particularly as
he was said to be a software programmer.

And I always take exception to claims that the Beeb is obsolete - rumours of the
demise of the BBC Micro have been greatly exaggerated over the years!

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Armstrong
To:  Andy Armstrong <andy@...>
Cc:  BBC-Micro Mailing List <bbc-micro@...>
Sent:  Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:23:10 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Beeb in London Review of Books

On 30 Jun 2006, at 16:55, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n12/jone01_.html

Oh - mail them and tell them about the errors - it'll be fun to see  
if they publish a correction :)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net