Hi
A good idea that was put into practice a long time ago on the mailing list,
was that people sent their configurations to the mailing list, the idea was
that people who had a problem with a particular piece of equipment could
contact someone else with the same equipment, and get their problem solved
faster!
If anyone else wants to do it, then send it to the mailing list, here is my
list to get us all started:
BBC Model B Issue 7 Motherboard
DNFS 1.2
APTL Sidewise ROM Extension Board with 16k SWR
Dual 80t Double sided Mitsubishi disk drives
Large PC PSU to power drives and other things
Microvitec Model 1431 monitor
Double Joysticks (Voltmace)
Viglen Cartridge Slot Adaptor
OS 1.2
8271 Disk controller
AMX Mouse
Roms:
View
Viewsheet
Acorn Pascal 1.00
Toolkit + 2.05
InterChart
AMX MaxDesktop 1.2
Xtend
AMX Mouse support ROM
I also have a Torch z80 second processor which I think is incompatible with
the APTL board, and anyway I don't have the software.
My main interests are hardware (especially adapting the Beeb to a more
modern age) and games.
Robert,
My name is Rick Galbraith; rick_galbraith@iname.com
Currently I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
My secondary email addresses,in descending priority, are:
ricgal@pangea.ca
ricgal@hotmail.com
ricgal@dryden.lakeheadu.ca
I have a North American BBC with US/UK operating system
One Chinon 5.25 drive, as originally supplied
Acorn DFS and NFS
View and Viewsheet on one chip
Logo
Oak Leaves LX-80 printer driver for View
experience using Macros in View, setting Highlight 1 or 2 to output
escape (which succesfully passes to the printer with the above
driver.)
Experience adapting Din serial to 25-pin serial connector.
Experience burning out two Kimtron SCB monitors, and using a
televideo925 terminal minus keyboard as half-fast monitor (you
have to learn to navigate blind with view!)
Numbers 13 to 24 of Oak Leaves, put out by a Toronto Acorn user
group.
Also, at my old home in Dryden, awaiting the finally move of our
family to Winnipeg, I have:
A program which will list any BBC basic program, as long as it has
been saved to disc.
A program that will transfer the contents of any sector of the disc
to any other sector.
A method to read the memory of the computer which carries the disc
directory, back out to the same disc as a file. This can then be
copied to the other disc surface or to another disc.
User Guides volumes one and two.
The idea is, you said, to put this on your users contact page on The BBC
Lives! Go for it! Must see this page for myself!
Rick
My name is Robbie Harrison and I am the maintainer of
master128.freeservers.com (http://master128.freesrvers.com) My e-mail is
bbcmaster128@hotmail.com and my ICQ# is 45122046
I have:
1 Master 128
2 BBC B+ in B Cases
1 Med-res Cub Monitor
1 Philips Monitor 80 Green
1 Philips Monitor 80 Amber
1 Acorn Winchester Disk 120 (20meg)
1 Pace 5.25" Drive
1 Cumana 5.25" Drive
1 AMS 3" Drive
1 Watford 3.5" Drive
2 Dual Care Electrics Master Cartridges
1 Quad Care Electrics Master Cartridge
1 Peartree Quad Master Cartridge
1 Acorn 6502 2nd Processor
1 Morley Teletext Adapter
1 Hegotron Robotics Grafpad
1 Datapen Lightpen
1 ZipStick Joystick
ROMS
DFS 1770
Domesday ROM
Watford DFS
Tape to Disk
View
Pinaple PCB
Pendown
Wordwise
Spell Check
Logotron Logo
If you have a problem related to any of this stuff I have please contact me.
I might be able to help!
Chris Richardson 8-Bit Software
I run the BBC and Master User Group and Public Domain library 8-Bit Software.
I have been into the BBC since it first appeared on the scene and used to borrow them from the
school that my Dad was a teacher at until he retired. I then bought a second hand BBC, Single
80T drive and a portable TV. A humble start.
I joined 8BS whilst Duncan Webster was in charge. I just got into the swing of sending him
loads of my software when he closed 8BS down (I wonder why?!). Daniel Shimmin took over for a
short time, but he too gave it up, so I took over. This was issue 25, we got to issue 66 before
submissions petered out and I called it a day.
I used to have a stack of BBC equipment which included:
BBC Equipment:
Master 128 with 512 board and 1 megabyte upgrade (two)
BBC B Watford DDFS 1770 and ZIF socket
BBC B+ with 64K extra and ATPL board
Electron with Plus 1
Master Compact with twin 3.5" drive
Twin Side by side 5.25" 3.5" Watford plinth disc drive
Twin stacked 3.5" 5.25" disc drive
Twin 5.25" disc drive
Acorn Winchester 30 meg hard drive (8 meg used)
Hand Scanner
Sound Sampler
LVL Camera
Cub Monitor Touch Screen
Mouse
Light Pen
HCR Eprom Programmer
And a load of other stuff. However, that has ALL gone now and I use a BBC emulator.
PC Equipment:
Various PCs Laptops and Netbooks.
Computing Interests:
Running 8BS
Programming
Databases
Graphics
Maintaining a website
Playing the occasional game
Cheats
Other Interests
Family
Motorcycles
Kite Flying
RC Cars
Model Making
Camping
Vindaloo/Madras
I retired from my job as a Paramedic in 2001 through ill health and now live a life of leisure.
I still mess about with computers a lot but nothing like the amount I used to.
Chris
I'm not going to write much about myself - the general stuff can be found
here.
I owned a BBC B in my childhood, but sold it to a friend, which I now regret.
I have, however, found that an emulator is an adequate substitute for my use
(I was never much inside it anyway), besides it takes less space.
Anyway, the Beeb was important enough for me to make this web site as a tribute.
Total computer freak since the age of 10, that's 18 years now. Did my school
work experience at MicroPower in Leeds during summer 1985 - the 2 weeks
before the LiveAid weekend. They were two weeks I will remember for the rest
of my life. Superior Software was just down the road and I used to walk past
when going for the bus.
I live in Austria, a ski village called Soll. It's in most of the brochures
if you want to see what it looks like. I work Insoft GesmbH, who specialise
in software for industry, process logic control and visualisation systems. I
am the PC specialist for the company, I program and provide technical
support for all PC related problems, hardware and software, aswell as
running the company network.
Computer kit that I have / use
BBC / iss 7 / drives galore / SCSI adapter / 92MB Fujtsu SCSI drive /
Watford 13 board / Mouse
Cannon BJC 4000 printer shared with a PC. 65C02 co-processor. Mouse.
WS2000 modem (retired but working - I used it for a short lived BBS in
1987).
BBC / iss 4 / Solidisk 1770 issue 1. Over a hundred roms, but only about 20
discs :-) Everything is stored on the PC.
PC / Dual Pentium MMX 200MHZ / 128MB RAM / 9,2GB of storage / AWE 64 /
runs WinNT Wks/ Win98 / DOS / Linux
PC / 486-DX 133 / 64MB / 1.2GB running WinNT server for test purposes.
2 x 286, and I'm sure there's another one somewhere about....
Don't just download from the BBC Documentation Project, lend a hand.
Mark
BBC Users