[vcf-midatlantic] BBC Micro

Neil Cherry ncherry at linuxha.com
Fri Jun 1 10:56:24 EDT 2018


On 06/01/2018 10:13 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>> Glad to hear you have a BBC Micro now. They’re fine machines, and as you
> rightly point out, require 240V power plus some sort of monitor. Ignore the
> PAL outputs and go straight for the RGB which is on a DIN connector. I
> vaguely recollect making up a special cable when I got mine going and
> hooking it up to a Sony studio monitor. Watch out for the X2 cap in the
> power supply which is a known point of failure. It’s easy enough to replace
> if that hasn’t already been done, but annoying to have it fail...

Wow, a BBC Micro, nice!

> What do we do for a disk drive?

Hope those aren't Australasian disk drives they spin backwards! ;-)

Please don't take that seriously.

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