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ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2017

Entry 28th May 2017: Post: 2


Kitchen Corner


Hi

Having enjoyed marginal success with the Acorn Electron I was reading an 
article regarding the machine and discovered that its biggest failing 
appears to be speed. BBC users of the time were experiencing half the 
speed of their BBC Micro. Anyway, enough with the theory and time to test.

For this I had to dig deep. [ see next post ]

And onward to the BBC Master Series computer. You may recall that this 
beast found its way all the way from Scotland. To this day I cannot see 
how it travelled so well. It was all complete and connected together, 
disk drives and monitor plus loads of books and disks. The machine was 
left on the back seat of an old car that I used for parcels when I was 
at work.

Anyway I have no other place big enough left to sit this thing so I 
cleared the worktop in the kitchen and set up. I also wasn't too far 
from a ready source of water should the thing go up in flames. Not that 
water on an electric fire would help the computer. It may help put out 
the resulting fires though.

And so connected I switched on the Microvitec 653 Cub monitor... Then 
the UFD User Friendly double disk drive unit... And then finally the BBC 
Master Series Computer. The lights came on on the drives.. 80 TRK and 
40TRK giving 4 drive letters.

I entered HELP... and the van arrived and dragged me off to star in a 
late edition of The Goons ... That last bit I can't back up. Its the BBC 
you see.. Never mind.

And so on the screen we have ...

OS3.20 MOS. Terminal 1.20. VIEW B3.0 Advanced DFS 1.50 ADFS Viewsheet 
B1.0 DFS 2.24 DFSSRAM 1.04 SRAM and Same time next Wednesday. Makes 
perfect sense.

And so it worked.... Can't say it was any faster. Just way heavier.

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