Date   : Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:20:25 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Patching a CF card patched ADFS

On 02/01/2011 21:58, Rick Murray wrote:

> To drag lamely back on topic, it is strange that the *size* of a BBC 
> Micro was never any indication of its prowess. A Master is better, but 
> then again perhaps not entirely... More, it depended on how much crap 
> was plugged into it at any given time. A bog-standard Beeb with dual 
> floppies, co-pro, printer, teletext (via user port), and some hidden ROM 
> board to allow the code for all this to exist, that would be 
> jaw-dropping. There'd be so many ribbon cables the machine itself would 
> be floating an inch off the desk. [*]

Well, the Beeb that I used for many years had speech, Econet (including 
terminator and clock, as it was an Issue 3) three floppies (1 x 40/80, 1 
x 40 and 1 x 80-track), a 6502 and a Z80 co-pro (switched), a 
fully-populated ATPL ROM card, a winchester, teletext, an EPROM 
programmer, a modem, some gubbins hooked to the analogue port, and 
probably more that I've forgotten.  It also had a fan in a casing 
designed to fit the slot on the back, and driven by a relay inside the 
Beeb :-)

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
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                                               University of York