Date : Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:27:53 +0100
From : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: weird places that BBC micros could be found (
Beebs are still being used regularly in industry, I get lots of enquiries for
spares and help, especially with Beebs running lathes. Quite a lot of people
think that when the Master starts saying "This is not a language", it means
it's dead and they are going to have to upgrade to an inferior modern machine!
Last year, I was given the task of repairing a disc with some lathe software
which the owners had been using since the 1980s and had never made a
backup! In a way it was not as surprising as you might think because it
was a "protected" disc with some of the tracks unformatted so I had to use
my old favourite Rip-Off IX to copy it.
Until at least about 2005 (and possibly still today) the pistons for the bells
at Bradford City Hall were controlled by a BBC Model B with a purpose-built
user-port add-on. There used to be some pictures of this at 8BS.
Best wishes,
Ian
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From: Mike [mailto:profpep@...]
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Sent: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:58:26 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <jules.richardson99@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] The Micro User
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> >> Message-ID:
<2f806cd70806231607m2ff59693nb0398ba80668081f@...>
> >
> > Rob wrote:
> >> Has anybody ever seen the software that controlled the BR station
> >> displays in the wild?
>
> Someone sent me lots of info on those, once - I'll have a look in a mo to
see
> if I can find it.
>
> BT also used BBC micros in some of their exchanges. We could use a list of
> "weird places that BBC micros could be found" :-)
>
> > I'll have to assemble one of my Reuters machines and get some
> > photos of it working.
>
> That would be good. I've seen a photo somewhere of the board, but never a
> complete, working system.
>
I've got a pair of working Reuters boards, circuit diagram, and somewhere a
partially annotated ROM dump from them. They had an Econet built in, as well
as a facility for video overlay, I think.
There was also, (though I missed one by a few days), a terminal for
'Interflora' that I think may have been Electron based.
I think BBC Radio had a master based system, possibly for cues or logging.
"Erasure" used one on stage with a MIDI interface.
||\/||ike
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