Date   : Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:28:53 +0100
From   : "Steve O'Leary" <navalenigma@...>
Subject: Re: UC: Car boot finds!

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** Top posting because that's how this threads going **
There must still be schools surely with dusty stockrooms where at the back
you might find some beeb kit. Although after use in a school they can be a
bit battered. Or do people think most schools have shifted all this kit now
 ?(probably to a skip). Was there perhaps a peak 10 - 15 years ago when it
all went perhaps ? Still there must be some somewhere in schools. 
 
Steve



> From: CALITTLEFIEL@...> To: bbc-micro@...> Date: Wed, 13
 Sep 2006 15:38:22 +0100> Subject: UC: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!> > I hav
e to admit I managed to dig out one or two copies of Acorn User (or> some s
uch) a while ago and it was really interesting to read especially the> Watf
ord Electronics advertisements. I always wanted their fancy speech> synthes
iser unit but could never afford it at the time (being a schoolboy!).> If I
 ever see one again I'll be tempted...> > Of course I can always make the c
omputer speak profanities by using the> software 'Speech', always a laugh!>
 > Back to BBC finds, I've yet to find anything at a car boot sale that is
BBC> related (other than the odd Electron game), plenty of Sinclair kit aro
und> but never a stashed away Model B :(> > I'm obviously going to the wron
g auctions. I keep peering into the skips at> work to see if there are any
BBC items thrown out, most of the time its> knackered PC parts but you neve
r know...> > Has anybody ever rescued any from skips?> > > > > -----Origina
l Message-----> From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...
] On Behalf Of> Ian Wolstenholme> Sent: 13 September 2006 13:35> To: bbc-mi
cro@...> Subject: Re: UC: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!> > I can't h
onestly remember how I found out about it.  He was local> and he may have c
ontacted me through the website but it had only> just started at the time.
 The whole lot filled up the back seat and> the boot of the car and my popu
larity at home has never recovered!> > I think the best thing of all is the
 full set of Beebugs, these are> really fascinating for an insight into the
 early history of the Beeb> and all the distribution problems there were. 
You had to wait about> 9 months to get a Beeb back in 1981-82!> > Best wish
es,> > > > Ian> > ----- Original Message -----> From: Littlefield Aaron> To
:  bbc-micro@...         > Sent:  Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:23:21 +0100> Subject:
 UC: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!> > Ian,> > How on earth did you manage to
get hold of all that? Was the guy going to> throw it all away?!> > Aaron> >
 > -----Original Message-----> From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordo
mo@...         ] On Behalf Of> Ian Wolstenholme> Sent: 13 September 2006 13
:14> To: bbc-micro@...         > Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!>
> This little lot wasn't bad....> > http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/GreatestFin
d/Greatest.html> > ...especially since it was all free!!!!!!> > Best wishes
,> > > > Ian> > ----- Original Message -----> From: Littlefield Aaron> To:
 BBC-Micro Mailing List <bbc-micro@...         >> Sent:  Wed, 13 Sep 2006 1
0:18:55 +0100> Subject: [BBC-Micro] Car boot finds!> > Purely out of intere
st, what's the best Acorn item you've ever bought from a> car boot or priva
te sale?> >  > > Mine is probably a 128k B+ with all the receipts and the s
tickers still on> the case, which was from a guy at work.> >  > > Aaron> >
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