Date   : Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:13:51 +0100
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: The Micro User

I have two of these Acorn Reuters Boards, along with a backplane and
a gigantic power supply.  What else would I need for a working system?
And what sort of keyboard can I use?

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston) [mailto:jgh at
arcade.demon.co.uk]
To: bbc-micro@...
Sent: 25 Jun 2008 00:45:38 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] The Micro User

Rob wrote:
> Has anybody ever seen the software that controlled the BR station
> displays in the wild?   What did the Reuters board machines actually
> do originally?
 
Stock exchange trading terminals. Whenever you saw a photo of the
Hong Kong Stock Exchange floor on the news in the 1980s and early
1990s all those machines were Reuters terminals, BBC Micros and
Master Compacts. Some of them were ones I'd installed :)
 
I'll have to assemble one of my Reuters machines and get some
photos of it working.
 
-- 
J.G.Harston - jgh@...                - mdfs.net/User/JGH
Youth has now fled. Their best years have been passed in the service
of the party. They are ageing and their ideals have also passed,
dispersed by the contrarities of daily struggles.

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