Date   : Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:30:58 +0000
From   : tbkc@... (salahdin mahmud)
Subject: BBC Serial number query

Are these machines fully compatible with uk software?

If spellings eg colour have chamged then the answer is probably NO.


>From: Alex Taylor <astravan@...>
>To: BBC-Micro Mailing List <bbc-micro@...>
>Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC Serial number query
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:49:32 +0000
>
>Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > Littlefield Aaron wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Can anybody confirm my suspicions please? Does a serial number of 
>02-UNB09
> >> signify one of those converted USA edition BBC Micros? I understand 
>quite a
> >> few were returned from export, converted and sold off back in the UK?
> >
> > I can't be certain about the serial number, but that looks right.  Yes,
> > Micropower (or Greyhound Marketing) brought quite a lot back and sold
> > them here with little modification (I seem to recall they fixed the
> > video though).  It should have a version of BASIC that uses COLOR
> > instead of COLOUR, as well as a few other changes.
> >
>
>I have one of these too. The serial number sounds right. The machine
>should be much heavier than a normal BBC B, because of all the metal
>shielding, which is visible from underneath. The labelling on the case
>will be slightly different (includes FCC approval information). The
>motherboard is completely different from all the issue 3-7 Beebs I've
>ever seen.
>
>Another clue that a machine is American-spec would be the presence of
>both Econet and the Speech upgrade, unless someone's removed them. The
>speech upgrade doesn't work on mine, if used it just hisses, crackles
>and makes the occasional stutter.
>
>  From memory, I tried COLOR on mine but it didn't work - perhaps someone
>has swapped the ROM at some time, or I was doing something wrong.
>
>
>--
>Alex Taylor
>
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