Date : Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:31:14 +0100
From : Philip Pemberton <philpem@...>
Subject: Re: FS: Assembly Language Programming for the BBC Micro
Jules Richardson wrote:
>> Funny how fate works.. I've got a copy of that book already, but I
>> decided to have a look through the "Vintage Computing" category (just
>> for grins). Found a nice looking Micro-Professor MPF-1B, complete with
>> manuals, going for not very much money. Been after one of those for
>> ages...
>
> I've never had one of those myself - I'm not even sure if we have one a
t
> the museum, actually, although we've got various other non-Z80 micro
> trainers.
I'd love to get my hands on a Synertek SYM-1 (also sold as the SY-VIM-1),
a
MOS Technology KIM-1 and/or a Rockwell AIM-65. Someone offered me one of
each
a while back, but his email address started bouncing a few weeks later :(
> I just dropped him an email letting him know that you're looking for
> him.
Thanks for that, Jules. I sent out a message on cctalk a few months back
-
maybe he only subs to cctech (and I doubt a "Paging: xyz" type message wo
uld
have been allowed through by the moderators anyway).
> Maybe Lee's got a spam trap that doesn't like your address for some
> reason, that or his replies aren't getting to you!
Well, I've also got another one on a server - to get the address, replace
"dsl.pipex.com" with "philpem.me.uk". Completely unfiltered and running o
n a
server I have root on :)
BTW, if anyone's looking for web hosting or anything like that, one of my
friends is running a webhosting company - www.castlecore.com if anyone's
interested.
> My only worry was that RM might be more expensive than the competition
> and so frowned upon by ebayers; I don't want to put anyone off! It's a
> 15 mile round trip into town to get to any other couriers though, but
> there's a handy post office in the village (even though it only opens
> for about a nanosecond per week :) which makes use of RM much easier
> for me.
Amtrak are pretty good. I used them to send an oscilloscope from Leeds to
Guernsey - they got it there overnight for (IIRC) just under £15. Even
sent
one of their drivers round to collect it...
> Ebay's selling form seems to have a place where you say what postage
> costs are and which countries you'll ship to, but then further on has
> another bit of the form where you *also* say which countries you'll shi
p
> to, which confused the heck out of me.
The checkbox thing is to select the countries you'll sell to. I usually h
ave
"Worldwide" selected for small items, but only have UK or UK and Europe
selected for larger stuff.
The postal fees thing is just to give your bidders some idea how much you
're
charging. I usually charge P&P at cost price, and have gotten some nice e
mails
back from buyers regarding that. "It's nice to see someone who charges P&
P at
cost instead of adding on handling and packing fees" :P
> Possibly. The RM website's completely stuffed in Firefox for Linux, but
> by all accounts works in the same build of Firefox for Windows, which i
s
> pretty odd. It's totally stuffed in Opera, too. Luckily the post office
> website works and seems to list the same prices :)
"It works for me"...
Just fired up my Fedora 4 "beta software testing" VM - seems fine to me.
Thanks,
--
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