Hi Everyone
The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research are looking for people to provide
at-home support for its users. This would involve sorting out the usual
problems with windows and mac machines on an as-required basis. Basically
they want a list of people who are competent in such things t
Thanks for the information:
I have done quite a lot of burrowing about on the web (using Firefox) and
discovered that the problem seems to be an epidemic of DNS servers that
don't respond sensibly to IPv6 addresses. You can disable IPv6 in the
preferences in Firefox and it works fine, but
Hi,
I know its not excatly a linux question, but does anyone out there have
any old BBC Master or BBC Master Compact machines? i need one to use on
an old piece of hardware ive dug out of the loft, and it wont run on the
BBC B's that ive got.
Thanks
Matt Lowe
scotlug mlsis.co.uk
(T) 07050 6
Matt Lowe wrote:
> Hi,
> I know its not excatly a linux question, but does anyone out there have
> any old BBC Master or BBC Master Compact machines? i need one to use on
> an old piece of hardware ive dug out of the loft, and it wont run on the
> BBC B's that ive got.
I don't mean to be rude (heh
Ive been having a look there, but the problem with ebay is that i dont
know the person selling the items, and ive had 2 bbc's purchased in the
past that i was told worked fine, and one of them i actually saw
running, and they have turned out to have faulty psu's and other
components :(
So if
Those were the days...
I did my PhD on a BBC Model B with 64K RAM. It lived in the middle of
the labs, had acid, blood, PTFE solution and tea spilt over it on a
regular basis and it never ever faltered. The main problem, as I
recall, was the BASIC interpreter had a 'number of lines' limit s
> Ive been having a look there, but the problem with ebay is that i dont
> know the person selling the items, and ive had 2 bbc's purchased in the
> past that i was told worked fine, and one of them i actually saw
> running, and they have turned out to have faulty psu's and other
> components :(
>
Thats the main reason i still like the BBC's i managed to put 240VAC
into the middle of one meny years ago, and it cost me a total of £6.00
to fix, those where the days LOL, try that with a PC and kiss the entire
machine goodbye :)
Matt
Steve Logan wrote:
Those were the days...
I did my
Heh,
Check out my museum if you think that's bad (and this is just a taster
of the
stuff I have):
www.aliross.co.uk/museum
BTW: I have a mate at work with a Master and a Compact, but I don't know if he
is willing to part with them. Do you want me to ask him, or will you just use
the
Yes please contact him if posible :)
As i said i prefer to know who im buying this kinda stuff from :)
thanks
Matt
Alistair Ross wrote:
Heh,
Check out my museum if you think that's bad (and this is just a taster of the
stuff I have):
www.aliross.co.uk/museum
BTW: I have a mate at work
Hi,
Whilst we are discussing old hardware, anyone out there got an 8 bit
ISA
network card I was after at the last meeting. I can't remember who it was
that said they might have one.
Also, I'm wanting an IBM EGA monitor and an EGA card. All 8bit again. Anyone
got such weirdness?
Cheer
Alistair,
it was john that said he might have a couple of 8bit lans, ive also just
cleared out one of the cuboards in the house and come across a load of
old isa cards, not sure if there 8bit or not, any hints asto how to tell
the diferance?
If you want me to ill try and bring them up to the
Hey all
Are we participating in the O'Reilly book review offer thingy for UUGs
and LUGs? (see: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html)
If so, does anyone actually know how it works, and which books we can
review? The page (linked to above) doesn't seem to be very descriptive:
"O'Reilly provid
I spoke with Josette Garcia from O'Reilly about this at EuroOSCON.
They are reallly keen to supply Lug members with books in return for
reviews.
What needs doing is for a book reviews and book request page to be
setup on the SLug site. One SLug member receives the members' book
requests and
> I dare say there will be data protection concerns with collation of
> people's addresses, this one thing that's stalled me getting the focus
> page for book requests and reviews together. Any thoughts on that?
Thanks for the reply
They easiest solution I can think of is:
When users submit bo
> old isa cards, not sure if there 8bit or not, any hints asto how to tell
> the diferance?
8 bit have only 1 edge connector (often called PC/XT), 16 bit have 2 edge
connectors (called PC/AT).
ie
--|__|-- = 8 bit PC/XT card
--|__|--|__| = 16 bit PC/AT card
coo - I'm showing m
> Also, I'm wanting an IBM EGA monitor and an EGA card. All 8bit again.
> Anyone
> got such weirdness?
lurk_mode = off
I think I've got an 8 bit EGA card. It's lying at the bottom of a drawer,
but I'm sure all the old through-hole components are more robust than
todays surface mount pap.
The mo
Matt,
A picture paint's a thousand words:
Image of an 8bit card:
http://www.vgmusic.com/faq/gallery/hardware/hw-ISA-8Bit.jpg
Image of a 16bit card:
http://eolsurplus.com/images/NI-AT-GPIB-TNT.jpg
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 21:06, Matt Lowe wrote:
> Alistair,
> it was john that said he might h
Peter George wrote:
I spoke with Josette Garcia from O'Reilly about this at EuroOSCON.
They are reallly keen to supply Lug members with books in return for
reviews.
What needs doing is for a book reviews and book request page to be
setup on the SLug site. One SLug member receives the membe
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