RE: BBC MIcro (Was: Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player)

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

It was a sad sad day when I sold my BBC Master 128 ... how many PC's have
an
easily accessible digital IO port and an analogue input? It used to be a
breeze knocking up quick programs for pretty much anything you needed.

6502 assembly language programming was relaxation therapy...

I actually went on to program Archimedes and ARM processors using Millipede
Graphics video boards (one of the few truly broadcast standard boards out
there - can be hooked straight up to a broadcast studio *without* the
techies worrying about mismatches or such like) ...

Unfortunately PC's evolved quicker and soon overtook what we were doing but
I was running FMV bradcast quality video from hard disc ooooo ... maybe
nine
years ago using three paralleled up graphics boards each running 256
greyscales and each handling one of the RGB channels!

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 March 2001 22:54
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BBC MIcro (Was: Creative Labs 6 Gig MP3 Player)
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> Nothing wrong with BBC Micros.
>
> The original Video Switcher that I built in 1995 is controlled by a
BBC
> Micro. It is in daily use in a Fun Pub (http://www.longbar.co.uk).
>
> It has NEVER crashed.
>
> It boots its program from 5 1/4" 40 track floppy drive and runs
an auto
> sequence unless manually overridden. At closing time the power is
turned
> off. Non of this "Please wait whilst you computer shuts down.
>
> Power up  is a case of Mains On.
> BERRRR BEEP (Computer booted in 2 seconds)
> Whrrr Click Click Chugg Chugg
> Program running in less than 10 seconds
>
> The ONLY failure in 6 years was the day it failed to boot. CAUSE
> : someone
> knocked the eject lever on the floppy drive so it could load the disk,
> closed the eject lever and it ran the program.
>
> I have 6 of them just laying around including a 6502 Second
> Processor, and
> may of use them for some HA tasks.
>
> I always wanted an Archemedies but didnt get round to buying one. At
the
> time I could have bought an Archemedies and a PCB Design Program for
less
> than the cost of the software for a PC. That was late 1980's. Then PC
> prices plumetted for Hardware and software and I ended up buying my
first
> PC in 1995.
>
> Keith
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> >
> > Hey just how long ago must you be talking about!?? - BBC
micro's!?!?
> >
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