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Title: 'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
Post by: Clive on March 20, 2008, 14:15

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7303288.stm

Title: Re: 'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
Post by: Rik on March 20, 2008, 15:29

Happy memories. :)

Title: Re: 'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
Post by: Clive on March 20, 2008, 17:26

Very happy memories!  I bought a 5.25" external disc drive and a dot matrix printer for mine.  I think the printer cartridges were similar to typewriter ribbons which you could rewind and use a second time to save money.  I even had a matching teletext adaptor to keep up with the latest news.   ;D

Title: Re: 'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
Post by: Rik on March 20, 2008, 18:15

Well, I had dual floppies, a 10MB HD (no, I haven't got the units wrong), a teletext adapter, a 6502 and a Z80 second processor, and an Epson dot-matrix printer. I also had a modem connected to the serial port - so connectivity was definitely an early thing for me. Oh, and I had a ROM extension board fitted too. :)

Title: Re: 'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
Post by: Simon on March 20, 2008, 18:39

I think I'm too young to have used a Beeb.   :)x :o:

Title: Re: 'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
Post by: Clive on March 20, 2008, 19:03

Gosh Rik.  Your system must have been the DB's.  I might also have had the ROM extension board if that's where View (the wordprocessor) was stored.  But my beeb was the posh Master 128 so perhaps it was built in. 

Title: Re: 'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
Post by: Rik on March 20, 2008, 19:07

I had the original B, and added everything else. It helped that I worked with Computer Concepts, testing their range of 'office suite' programs, and also did freelance work for Acorn. The HD, btw, cost £300 for 10MB, these youngsters don't know they're born.  :laugh:

Title: Re: 'Beeb' creators reunite at museum
Post by: Clive on March 20, 2008, 19:17

Wait!  My beeb was a 512K.  10Mb - what would anyone possibly need all that space for?   :laugh:  I can't remember how much the beebs cost when they were new.